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“You should hear what my parents wanted to call me. It was between Brown Rice, Neon Hitch and Z. Ziggurat Zanzibar Zandorf. I'm not joking. Imagine fitting that on my passport!”

Should Wanted Parent Imagine Brown Call Me Rice Fitting Passports Neon Zanzibar

Author:Neon Hitch

“Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.”

“Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry: "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon. Incandescent. Lights that banish the darkness from our caves, to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlight for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor... Light is knowledge. Light is life. Light is light.”

“One can take a neon tube and simply paint it black on the front. So it would read as a black letter or a line, but it would also read as neon because there would be light coming from behind that black letter.”

Light Would Be Black Lines Behinds Fronts Letters Paint Tubes Neon

Author:Glenn Ligon

“The VIP area, which is geared to live entertainment, is a black-lit stage with a neon painting resembling New York City on the walls. It's supposed to resemble New York City, ... Look, we even have the Twin Towers on there.”

Looks Black Cities Stage New York Painting Wall Areas Entertainment New York City Twins Towers Lit Neon Twin Towers Vip

Author:Mike Wells

“In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [υ Sagittarii] and it is still a fascinating, not understood, star. It's the first star in which you could clearly demonstrate an enormous difference in chemical composition from the sun. It had almost no hydrogen. It was made largely of helium, and had much too much nitrogen and neon. It's still a mystery in many ways ... But it was the first star ever analysed that had a different composition, and I started that area of spectroscopy in the late thirties.”

“Roadrunner, roadrunner, going faster miles an hour. Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop, with the radio on. I'm in love with Massachusetts and the neon when it's cold outside. And the highway when it's late at night. Got the radio on, I'm like the roadrunner.”

Past Night Hours Cold Travel Late Radio Miles Faster Shops Highways Massachusetts Neon Cold Outside

Author:Jonathan Richman

“Viva Las Vegas with your neon flashin' and your one arm bandits crashin' all those hopes down the drain. Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime, turnin night into daytime. If you see it once, you'll never be the same again.”

Ifs Night Arms Travel Vegas Las Vegas Drains Daytime Nighttime Neon Bandits Viva

Book:Elvis Presley

Source: Elvis Presley

“The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.”

Past Black Cities Sadness Rocks San Francisco Neon Nevada

Book:Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

Source: Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

“So if big enough droplets fell far enough fast enough, someone floating right near the metallic hydrogen layer inside Jupiter maybe, just maybe, could have looked up into its cream and orange sky and seen the most spectacular show ever--fireworks lighting up the Jovian night with a trillion streaks of brilliant crimson, what scientists call neon rain.”

Ifs Enough Shows Bigs Night Sky Rain Scientist Brilliant Layers Cream Floating Orange Spectacular Lighting Streaks Hydrogen Fireworks Jupiter Crimson Neon Metallic Droplets

Author:Sam Kean

“Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss. The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten.”

Want Moments Next Lost Memories Dark Childhood Cold Shapes Filled Forgotten Delight Sentimental Ambiguous Puberty Poignant Treacherous Damp Neon Carnivals Aroma Shape Of Things

Author:Alan Moore

“On any day in the Mission in San Francisco, you can see a hand-painted sign that is kind of funky, and maybe that person, if they had money, would prefer to have had a neon sign. But I don't prefer that. I think it's beautiful, what they did and that they did it themselves. That's what I find beautiful.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Persons Hands Beautiful Missions San Francisco Neon Funky Neon Sign

Author:Margaret Kilgallen

“New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with dancing neon signs. It was safe to walk out in the streets.”

Walks Sky Streets Stage New York Safe Towns Dancing Broadway Lit Glamorous Neon Old Movie Neon Sign

Book:Leaving home: a memoir

Source: Leaving home: a memoir

“Those neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories. There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?”

Light Night Fighting Memories Cry Crowds Revenge Loud Haunting Retribution Neon Neon Lights

Author:Waylon Jennings