Quotes About Fluorescent Lights

#1. Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from the horror of it, but not from the killing. It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.

Caryl Rivers

#2. How can I tell McDermott that this is a very disjointed time of my life and that I notice the walls have been painted a bright, almost painful white and under the glare of the fluorescent lights they seem to pulse and glow.

Bret Easton Ellis

#3. She was attractive, but so was everyone in this kind of light; the longer the wavelength, the softer the focus. There's a reason fuckcubbies don't come with fluorescent lights.

Peter Watts

#4. Thank you, Department Stores, for the flickering fluorescent lights, dingy yellow wall paint, and adjustable mirrors in the dressing room where I try on bathing suits. You are why I drink.

Jen Hatmaker

#5. All I can think is: I need air. The rest of my thoughts are a blur of radio static and fluorescent lights and lab coats and steel tables and surgical knives

Lauren Oliver

#6. The earth spins further from help. Beyond us the heart monitors go on, the fluorescent lights buzz, the commentators shout, the casino leaves fall into the desert, sirens blare. But all we hear is the rain.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

#7. The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.

Rainn Wilson

#8. In a black and white world, Chase and I would never end up together - our mothers had ensured that - but in that small bathroom, under the harsh fluorescent lights, we dragged each other deeper into the gray - the messy, guilt-ridden space that sat between right and wrong.

R.S. Grey

#9. If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian.

Dave Grohl

#10. Fluorescent lights on the ceiling lit up the white Formica top of her desk like an operating table, white-sand beach at high noon, French fries under the heat lamp at McDonald's.

Dennis Vickers

#11. One of the big areas I'd like to see a lot more research done on is the sensory problems, and it's real variable. One kid's got sound sensitivity; another one can't tolerate fluorescent lights. I can't stand scratchy clothes.

Temple Grandin

#12. I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him at work, thinking, 'When I grow up, I've got to do anything else.'

Terry Zwigoff

#13. We'd better go before I try to make out with you in my kitchen." She laughed out loud, her dark hair shining in the fluorescent lights. "Zack would love that!

J.B. Hartnett

#14. The fluorescent lights flickered overhead, casting a sick gray pallor over the room.

Denise Grover Swank

#15. Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

Sufjan Stevens

#16. We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a church. It was just shitty fluorescent lights and a small stage piano, but this band tore it up.

Penn Dayton Badgley

#17. oh fear! I fear you not

Mallika Tripathi

#18. Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.

Starhawk

#19. I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.

Gavin MacLeod

#20. Good habits were the easiest ones to break ...

Barbara Seranella

#21. The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

William Blake

#22. There is something in the magic we have that is greater than the magic we can do.

Anne Ursu

#23. I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life.

Ben Elliot

#24. Knowledge is power and at the end of the day, our health, the health of our children, the health of our community, and the health of Mother Earth is our responsibility. Therefore, it is imperative that we understand the human and environmental affects of the products that we buy.

Obiora Embry

#25. Right comes with right timing.

Deb Caletti

#26. If you don't take professional pride in your work, you're probably in the wrong job.

Dedy Budiman

#27. History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze.

Cassandra Clare

#28. I knew I should have call Jack, should have told him ... but I didn't. Not yet. I was afraid of him thinking that I was crazy, too. I wasn't sure what he'd do if he saw me drowning. I wasn't sure he'd save me unless he was saving himself. what he'd say.

David Levithan

#29. Apathetic in my adolescence,
my heart is fluorescent. It flickers
like liquor store lights in the ghetto.

Kris Kidd

#30. Let your story breathe and be what it really is.

A.D. Posey

#31. Las Vegas, the most expensive toilet in the world that still can't flush.

Brin-Jonathan Butler