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  • We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!

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

    Light   Fame   Bulbs  
  • [Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the East and West coasts without knowing the state, much less the town or street the house is on.

    Science   Light   Knowing  
  • Do you know how much money you would save if you changed your light bulb to compact florescent light bubs? How much would you save if you decreased your temperature of your house in the winter by one degree, or increase it by one degree? We just don't know these numbers, but I think displays could make it a memorable change in terms of attention, and also help us translate it in terms of concrete ways on what you can get.

    "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.
  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • [S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years.

    Science   Light   Air  
  • History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.

    Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.72, Simon and Schuster
  • Great quotes make the light bulb go off in my mind. If you're like me, you'll jump at the chance to bypass all the churning and scoop the cream right off the top ~ that is what quotes are . . . the cream of our learning!

    Light   Mind   Bypass  
    Zig Ziglar (2012). “Inspiration from the Top”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • When I think about my own work, there usually is one or the other light bulb moment where there is this flash of insight. Where do these ideas come from? Supernatural? Enigmatic? Divine? You can take that any way you like. I think the human mind does a lot of things that we could call somehow divine.

    Thinking   Mind   Moments  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense.

    Light   People   Car  
    "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.
  • The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few who can easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment of one who moves from rags to riches, from anonymity to internationally imitated innovator. Louis Daniel Armstrong supplied revolutionary language that took on such pervasiveness that it became commonplace, like the light bulb, the airplane, the telephone.

    Moving   Airplane   Light  
  • He spent more time on the road to Damascus than a Syrian camel driver. And we thought nobody could fill John Kerry's flip-flops! ... [Romney's record was] anything but conservative until he changed all the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for President.

    "Huckabee throws a Mitt fit" by Maggie Haberman, www.politico.com. February 21, 2011.
  • I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.

    Light   Doe   Way  
  • 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.

    "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.
  • A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

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

    Garden   Light   Tree  
    Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.206, Simon and Schuster
  • The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

    Home   Thinking   Light  
  • The good doctor reassured John these were people who put their psychopathy to good use. They lived productive, well-adjusted lives as surgeons, CEOs and ambulance drivers. The light bulb went on. The CSC [Correctional Service of Canada] doesn't have to go through all these gyrations to reprogram anyone, they just have to find every inmate the right job!

    Jobs   Doctors   Light  
  • I'm wired with a little bit of self-loathing, not that kind of self-loathing that paralyzes me, but it's there. The things I'm most loved for are sometimes the things that annoy me, not my favorite stuff, but those flashes of genius moments, they're called, I rarely see them as a one eureka light bulb idea.

    Genius   Kind   Sometimes  
    Source: www.fanbolt.com
  • I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

    Light   Rude   Naked  
    Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.60, New Directions Publishing
  • As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws

    Light   Law   Important  
  • I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.

    Hunting   Light   People  
  • Groucho Marx, in his later days, gave me the best review I've ever had and probably will ever have. I changed a light bulb over his bed, and when I came off of his bed with the used one after putting the new one in, Groucho said, 'That's the best acting I've ever seen you do.'

    Light   Acting   Bed  
    Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. April 23, 2009.
  • There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves. There is no better time to dance again, to make the most of every crumb of sunlight and warm body and soul with its rays before it falls asleep and becomes only a dim light bulb in the skies.

    Fall   Autumn   Light  
    Paulo Coelho (2014). “Adultery: A novel”, p.87, Vintage
  • Even though it's important for all of us to change our light bulbs and the vehicles we drive, it's much more important to change our laws and policies. I drive a hybrid and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else. But putting the burden on individuals to solve this global crisis is ultimately not going to be the most effective way to solve it.

    Light   Law   Important  
    ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.
  • The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb.

    Light   Space   Goal  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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 (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.94, Thomas Nelson Inc
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