Quotes About Light

He pointed to a spot about fifty feet down the alley. "The burst of light came from that direction. I would almost call it a detonation of light. Imagine if a magnesium flare went off right in front of your face. I was blinded by the light." I wasn't sure whether his reference was to Paul of Tarsus or Manfred Mann. "Bit

Khouri had never really given much thought to the slowness of light. There was nothing in the universe that moved faster . . . but, as she now saw, it was glacial compared to the speed that would be needed to keep their love alive.

I was born in a house with a million rooms, built on a small, airless world on the edge of an empire of light and commerce that the adults called the Golden Hour, for a reason I did not yet grasp.

As long as we stay together, you don't have to worry about the darkness.

For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to every other piece of information ever known; every thought ever thought, or at least ever captured by the light.

I knew that the swallower was just a little knot of matter, squashed so tight that even its own light couldn't break free of it, and I knew it didn't have a mind or a will or anything you could think of as an appetite.

To Sky, Clown had become something to be understood; something to be dissected and parameterised. Clown, he now recognised, was something like the bubble-drawing the dolphin had made in the water: a projection carved from light rather than sound.

In less than twelve hours, Purslane's ship would be travelling so close to the speed of light that the fastest ship ever built would still need a hundred thousand years to catch up with her.

It took time for light to reach the Eye from distant galaxies. The further out the Eye looked, the further it looked back into the history of the universe. Galaxies ten million light years away were glimpsed as they were ten million years earlier; those a billion light years away offered a window into the universe when it was a billion years younger than the present epoch.

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.

It's too bad that there aren't as many light comedies around in the movies as there were when I was making pictures like 'The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.' The boys are just not writing them. Many writers are more serious now than they used to be, and that's showing up in all phases of entertainment.

I learned early on that if I was to get attention, I would have to be charming. Even the models I've photographed are often like that. Some of them are not beautiful. But, if you catch them in the right light, they glow.

Photography has always been about capturing light.

There's something about light field photography that's just magical.

When you use film, you use accidents, but there aren't any accidents with digital photography. I don't mind that it's easy. But I do mind that there is a sort of consensus with the camera and the subject and the light, and you look at something, and you photograph it, and you get what you see.

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

Flash photography can be horrible. In the hands of an expert who knows how to bounce all that searing bright light in the right direction, it may make an impossible picture workable.

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.

Light field photography unleashes the power of the light, to forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures.

With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.

I am interested in the physicality of light itself.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

Ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential,' I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is like being on a pirate ship; it's not like 'Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?' or whatever my impression was as I was growing up.