Quotes About Artificial Light

#1. Ish #153 Artificial plants grow best in artificial light.

Regina Griffin

#2. There is no chance of night baseball ever being popular in the bigger cities. People there are educated to see the best there is and will stand for only the best. High-class baseball cannot be played at night under artificial light.

Clark Griffith

#3. When we so fear the dark that we demand light around the clock, there can be only one result: artificial light that is glaring and graceless and, beyond its borders, a darkness that grows ever more terrifying as we try to hold it off.

Parker J. Palmer

#4. It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgement, particularly if they're going by light meters.

Adam Gilchrist

#5. Before the advent of artificial light, we had 13, 14 hours in bed every night ... and so what we experience now is about a 40% contraction of how we used to sleep, and I for one am glad of that - I don't want to spend 13 hours in bed.

Jessa Gamble

#6. I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

Susanne Bier

#7. For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the glare of artificial light; for my children's children, the power, peace and healing of the night will be obliterated.

Peter Matthiessen

#8. Out of the corner of my eye, I watched him glaring at me from his "box" as I liked to call it. His pale cheeks were mottled with red, the bald area on his head shining brightly underneath the artificial light. He was thick-set with thick lips that were currently tight with annoyance.

Rose Wynters

#9. If every human somehow simply disappeared from the face of the Earth, how long would it be before the last artificial light source would go out?

Randall Munroe

#10. You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.

Pablo Picasso

#11. Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.

David Daiches

#12. You haven't created a new body for me. I'm electricity, or light, or whatever bullshit you said I am. Just some complicated programming.

Brad McKinniss

#13. He who brings kola brings life.

Chinua Achebe

#14. When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

Luc De Clapiers

#15. We are alive within mystery, by miracle ... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.

Wendell Berry

#16. All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.

George Whitman

#17. That light he'd felt when he first saw her
he understood now that it was only a lightbulb. It was quick and easy, full of electricity, but there was something artificial about it. What he wanted was fire: heat and spark and flame.

Jennifer E. Smith

#18. I look to the skies
and expect artificial passenger pigeons,
blackening the light,
people taking potshots for kicks
imagining one day they will be extinct.

Carl-John X. Veraja

#19. Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies would have to re-examine many reliable technologies under the light of the new forces these tools would have to endure. Space flight would have to take several steps back before moving forward again.

Andy Weir

#20. The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really, really going well, that's the time to change.

Edward Zander

#21. God's ways and His will come in His own perfect time.

Elizabeth George

#22. If your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale's head for an afternoon.

Steven Johnson

#23. Although we lost it has been a great Test and one of the best I have ever played in. Hopefully the next one will be exactly the same.

Ricky Ponting

#24. Success is about evolution. Change is healthy. I like to reinvent myself.

Faith Hill

#25. We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#26. An idea without action is like a song without vocal.

Corine Timmer