Terry Zwigoff

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.

American Director

Malin Akerman

In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.

Swedish Actress

Virginia Postrel

Neon signs don't consume much power, but they look like they do. A cousin of fluorescent lighting, neon is actually quite energy efficient. A neon tube glows coolly when high-voltage, low-amperage electrical power excites the gas within it.

American Writer

Chris Hoy

Decent cycling clothing today is designed with reflective strips or subtle detailing that is visible under streetlights or in car headlights. You'll find that you can be seen just as well as you would in a builder's fluorescent vest.

British Driver

Claire Wineland

I want to show people that the hospital does have its moments. The hospital is just a place, and even though it does have fluorescent lighting and white walls, it doesn't have to be a miserable experience.

American Activist

Jonathan Miles

I find airports to be purgatorial in many ways. I mean, even from the basics of the design: you know, this sort of - this muted gray and the fluorescent lights.

Bobby Berk

A lot of people spend all this time painting their house, picking out rugs, and then they put fluorescent lighting in there. It totally ruins the mood.

American Designer

Sufjan Stevens

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

American Musician

Eric Wareheim

When I was 15, I wore combat boots with a fluorescent Columbia ski jacket. I was trying to find myself.

American Actor

Tana Ramsay

The one thing I still love is mint choc chip ice cream - the really fluorescent kind.

English Author

Fluorescent light comes from bulbs, not the sun or fire.

Not Natural Light

Fluorescent lights are popular because they save energy compared to regular bulbs.

Energy Efficient

Some people find the light from fluorescents too bright or harsh.

Harsh Glow

Fluorescent colors are very bright and easily attract attention.

Eye-Catching Color

Fluorescent colors are often used on safety gear to increase visibility.

Safety Use

Fluorescent colors can be seen as too bold for some fashion styles.

Not Always Fashionable

A fluorescent usually refers to the whole light fixture, not just the bulb.

Light Fixture

People choose fluorescents to save energy and money over time.

Energy-Saving Choice

Many fluorescents have a distinctive long, tubular shape.

Tubular Shape

 because they have really advanced vision, and some of the fish even have, the way that I was photographing it, they have lenses in their eyes that would magnify the fluorescence. So I wanted to seek this out further. So we designed a new set of gear and we're scouring the reefs around the world, looking for fluorescent life.

Glow-in-the-dark sharks...

 sharks the the cat sharks are brilliantly fluorescent as bright as some of the brightest fish as bright as the corals when you see the images when you see it's all over it's in their eyes it's um it's down their skin this is making me think that it's something that's important physiologically for

Neon Sharks Caught on...

 You can see the hazy stuff in the background. That's mud. That's deep-sea ocean mud, and the bright green dots stained with the green fluorescent dye are real, living microbes. Now I've got to tell you something really tragic about microbes. They all look the same under a microscope,

This deep-sea mystery is...

 sorry the DMV will go away the DMV I know what you say right now there's no way this guy's going to stand up here and make a case for the DMV well I don't know about you but I do not want to live in a world where harsh fluorescent lights endless lines terrible forms to

A funny look at the...

 microscope fluorescent green dye indicates no antibodies present meaning the bat was free of disease but if the results come back clear the bat has antibodies and strike her nose the bat was exposed to rabies in the recent past this is an important test for us because

Vampire Bats Biting...

 making it one of the most potent poisons of any animal in the world. Other jellyfish superpowers are less lethal. One species of jellyfish glows green when it's agitated, mostly thanks to a biofluorescent compound called green fluorescent protein, or GFP.

Jellyfish predate...

 You look up, half-erased chalkboard, you can see that perfectly written cursive alphabet, the pull-down maps, you can hear, tick, tick, tick, ticking on the wall, that industrial clock. But most importantly, you can feel that oppressive fluorescent light,

3 ways to create a space...

 learned about global warming many organizations advocate cutting greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the impact of global warming consumers can help by saving energy around the house switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs and driving

Global Warming 101 PIPE...

 greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the impact of global warming consumers can help by saving energy around the house switching to compact fluorescent lightbulbs and driving fewer miles in the car and tweet these simple changes

 by day the sun is too bright for this to be visible the shining blue light on the corals at night shows their fluorescent response