Light Bulb Quotes

• A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Environment, Bulbs

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• I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

  Tennessee Williams

  Light, Rude, Naked

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

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• When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

  Gene Tierney

  Light, Secret, Normal

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

  Carrie Fisher

  Doctors, Light, World

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• How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

  Brad Warner

  Garden, Light, Tree

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.

  Elliott Gould

  Light, Shoes, Acting

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• One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.

  Richard Marx

  Light, Cheesy, Rooms

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• Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

  Bob Dylan

  Light, Bulbs

  Bob Dylan, Barry Miles, Pearce Marchbank (1978). “Bob Dylan in his own words”, Music Sales Corp

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• I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Way, Found

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

  Nathan Fielder

  Light, Worried, Bulbs

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• 'Don't be the moth. Be the light bulb.' When I say that I mean don't follow the crowd. Just shine. Be the light bulb. Do your thing. Pave your own path.

  Sara Paxton

  Mean, Light, Shining

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• Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark.

  Paul Arden

  Dark, Men, Light

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• You can think of individuals as differ­ent light bulbs. There will be a differences in wattage and in color. There will be differences in shape, but everywhere the current is the same. That current is who you are. You are not the individual bulb. You are the one current in all.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Thinking, Light, Color

  Source: souljourns.net

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• The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human being radiates out into the world.

  David Lynch

  Light, Negativity, Stressed

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Able, Next

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• Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.

  Gilda Radner

  Light, Fame, Bulbs

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• Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Light, Important, Sometimes

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• When Edison first started out with his "crazy" idea for the light bulb, skeptics were unmoved. They called Thomas Edison a con man and taunted him to prove his bulb could really work. Despite the naysayers, Edison pushed on, demonstrating the importance of sticking with his "crazy" idea which would go on to turn him into one of the world's most well-known entrepreneurs. The key here is to fan the foolish fire no matter what!

  Linda Rottenberg

  Crazy, Men, Entrepreneur

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.

  Haruki Murakami

  Light, Giving, Benefits

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• I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Positive, Giving Up, Light

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.94, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Science, Thinking

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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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• You know, that's what I've regretted the most, that joy. Of course, later there were times when I felt happy, but happiness is to joy what an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you're happy because of something, it's a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy, on the other hand, has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason; it's like the sun- its burning is fueled by its own heart.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Heart, Light, Hands

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• I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.

  James Van Der Beek

  Light, Average, Energy

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• It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

  Benjamin Carson

  Failure, Light, Today

  "Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk". Book by Ben Carson and Gregg Lewis, 2008.

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