- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
Light Quotes
Sometimes clarity just needs a light switch.
A few of these use light as a metaphor for clearing out what no longer serves you, while others are about the literal, practical light a film crew depends on. For hopeful reading in the same spirit, see our Hope quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would see bioluminescence, but I was totally unprepared for how much. It was incredible! There were explosions of light everywhere, like being in the middle of a silent fireworks display.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.
- Sea
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in the upper 3000 feet, and as many as 80-90% of the animals you catch can make light. The biomimetic lure that I developed imitates one of these - a common deep sea jellyfish called Atolla.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
When caught in the clutches of a predator, the jelly produces a light display that is a pinwheel of light that is basically a call for help. It serves to attract the attention of a larger predator that may attack their attacker, thereby affording them an opportunity for escape.
- Colleague
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- Nov 07, 2020
I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Burn
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- Nov 07, 2020