Bulbs Quotes - Page 7

• I was never any good at remembering dates, but now I hardly have to. When the first bulb catalogs get delivered and the hens start laying again, that's all the notice I'll need to know that winter has passed.

  Susan Orlean

  Winter, Needs, Hens

  "Seasonal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.

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• How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, People

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• I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

  Lucy Grealy

  Thinking, Shine On, Light

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• She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.

  J. D. Salinger

  Light, Dust, Touching

  "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

  Tom Waits

  Reading, Math, Reality

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• My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.

  Angelo Pellegrini

  Food, Blessed, Ice Cream

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• When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize as a conspicuous failure, trumpeted as a wonderful success, I [conclude]... that the writer ... must either be very ignorant, and the victim of deceit, or a conscious accomplice in what is nothing less than a fraud upon the public.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Failure, Science, Light

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• Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

  Thomas Friedman

  Light, Leader, Politics

  "Q&A: Columnist Tom Friedman On Climate Change". Interview with Sharon Begley, www.newsweek.com. April 3, 2009.

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• What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

  Joseph Campbell

  Light, Vehicle, Carrie

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.88, Anchor

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• The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.

  Michio Kaku

  Block, Cities, Brain

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• If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.

  Nathan Fielder

  Light, Worried, Customers

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• The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art, Light, Shining

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Surfacing”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!'

  David Keirsey

  New York, Thinking, Light

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• Our tree was so puny we used orthopedic bulbs.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Tree, Orthopedics

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• We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash behind the eyes.For us, it was not only an intellectual movement, but a way of life. We walked, dressed, and rapped Be-Bop.

  Ishmael Reed

  Music, Eye, Light

  Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

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