Phosphorescent Quotes

#1. The famous jack-o-lantern mushroom, which glows at night with a greenish phosphorescent ligh called foxfire.

Bill Bryson

#2. Possibility, infinity, beauty
none of those words were right. [ ... ] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?

Haven Kimmel

#3. But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.

John Muir

#4. We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. We should cling to them just as blood is thicker than water.

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

#5. I was lonely amidst a world of things lit up by phosphorescent flashes of cruelty. I was delirious with an energy which could not be unleashed except in the service of death and futility.

Henry Miller

#6. A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris had stopped again, his silhouette a stark black juxtaposition against the background of illuminated branches.

R.D. Ronald

#7. I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.

James Wolcott

#8. I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.

Donna Tartt

#9. Gabriel gazed at his reflection in the mirror. To his shock and dismay, he was clad only in his underwear, a cheeky pair of boxer shorts that had the phrase 'Medievalists Do It in the Dark (Ages)' printed all over them in phosphorescent lettering.

Sylvain Reynard

#10. Do you know what made Poe great? And Machen and Lovecraft? A direct pipeline to the old subconscious. To the fears and twisted needs that swim around down there like phosphorescent fish.

Stephen King

#11. I am wrapped round with phrases, like damp straw; I glow, phosphorescent.

Virginia Woolf

#12. It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.

Aimee Mann

#13. Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their teens, their souls shattered - delicate, phosphorescent glowworms that one must see to know they really did exist.

Knut Hamsun

#14. Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium with hot bodies, the temperature of these bodies, and thus every radiation, even that issuing from a phosphorescent body, has a certain temperature for every colour.

Wilhelm Wien

#15. As we rode in the bus in the weird phosphorescent void of the Lincoln Tunnel we leaned on each other with fingers waving and yelled and talked excitedly, and I was beginning to get the bug like Dean.

Jack Kerouac

#16. He took the fucking piano, Sunshine. He didn't take everything. Look at your left hand. It's probably clenched in a fist right now, isn't it?"
I don't need to look. It is. He knows it.
"Now open it up and let it go."
And I do.

Katja Millay

#17. Christians have a real chance to change the society that is I darkness, to help every person see the light of God's love

Sunday Adelaja

#18. The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people's failure to recognize their ability.

Confucius

#19. If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

Paul Kantner

#20. The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel.

Terry Pratchett

#21. When you're in need of change, pray without ceasing, and pray until something happens.

Nicole S. Rouse

#22. A writer is a genius not when critics say so, but when her or his book pierces your heart and rips off your blindness with its brilliance.

Ksenia Anske

#23. Never promise more than you can perform.

Publilius Syrus

#24. A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.

David Simon

#25. The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

Dana Snyder