Bioluminescence Ocean Quotes & Sayings

Like a singing river
You break out to flow freely
I am the mountain behind
Happily I watch you
Memory of us
Full and sweet — Anchee Min

It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form. — Robert Grosseteste

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's. — Gayle Forman

You're not endangering my wife and son, you're not bringing trouble down on us, if you're going the same way as your useless parents, I — J.K. Rowling

She ran her fingers over the stock and down the barrel, then drew in a sharp breath and paused.

This was the gun she'd killed Soren Tarbic with. — E.J. Fisch

I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke. — Dave Ramsey

I refuse to accept the idea that the 'is-ness' of a man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the 'ought-ness' that forever confronts him. — Martin Luther King Jr.

In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception. — Edith Widder

I could write an epic poem about your thighs."
"That would amuse polite society rather too much, and I wouldn't like that."
"I wouldn't either." She pressed her cheek to his belly. "I can't think of a word to rhyme with marble column. — Christina Dodd

This is the "burglar-alarm" theory of bioluminescence: by turning on its lights, an animal may create enough of a scene to draw the attention of its predator's predator, and thereby perhaps save itself. The corollary of the burglar-alarm theory is the minefield theory. It says the reason so many animals tend to hang motionless in the deep, even fish, is to avoid setting off light explosions that would expose them to their enemies - their predators or their prey. Life in the midwater, in this view, is a tense affair (though the denizens do not know it) in which everyone is waiting stealthily in the dark, moving slowly if at all, watching and waiting for someone to turn on a light and for something to happen. — Robert Kunzig

It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature. Marriage is an imposition, an invention of man - certainly out of necessity, but now even that necessity is out of date. It was a necessary evil in the past, but now it can be dropped. And it should be dropped: man has suffered enough for it, more than enough. It is an ugly institution for the simple reason that love cannot be legalized. Love and law are contradictory phenomena. — Rajneesh

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year. — Mark McGwire