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Light Bulb Quotes

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

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

Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of my waking-up mind. This is how it's always been with Light Bulb Fragment dreams; by the time I'm fully awake, they're gone.
- Steven Hall

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.
- Michele Bachmann

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.
- Tyra Banks

By the way, don't you think shoving a light bulb up baby Jesus' butt and plugging it in is just a little sacrilegious?
- Dana Marie Bell

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

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

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.
- Jeff Bezos

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you're changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you'll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you'll be dead.
- Chuck Palahniuk

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.
- Conrad Burns

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.
- Mitch Daniels

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.
- Bob Dylan

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

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

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

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.
- Jim Hodges

On cloudy days I just want to raise my arm up, stand on my toes, and screw a light bulb into the sky. Don't worry, my light bulb is energy efficientit runs on solar power.
- Jarod Kintz

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

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

I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.
- Kristy Swanson

... but happiness is to joy as 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

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

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.
- Fred Upton

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

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

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