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Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again. -- Henry Beard
We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. "L.B.J." should stand for Light Bulb Johnson. -- Barry Goldwater
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
Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb! -- Heidi Klum
I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb. -- Henry Rollins
Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but it's not enough. -- John Patrick Shanley
The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. -- Michele Bachmann
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. -- Tennessee Williams
Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light. -- Ellis Peters
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. -- Tom Waits
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
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. -- Tom Waits
To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one. -- Edward Walker
The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs. -- Shuji Nakamura
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. -- Bill Bryson
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
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
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 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
Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light. -- Andrew Weil
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. -- Elon Musk
I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn't buy a light bulb. Almost more than the money, the awards are important because they show that someone believes in you. -- Sandra Cisneros
When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally. -- Zig Ziglar
Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.' -- David Chase
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
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
I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system. -- Aaron Patzer
This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now? -- Steve Jobs
Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels.... -- Dylan Thomas
We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death. -- Allen Ginsberg
Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb. -- Bob Dylan
A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence. -- Marshall McLuhan
How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb? -- Steven Wright
God is the light bulb, to where faith is the light switch. -- Anthony Liccione
Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough. -- John Patrick Shanley
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. -- Thomas A. Edison
I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work. -- Thomas A. Edison
It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree. -- Clare Leighton
Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark. -- Paul Arden
I don't know an England player who could fix a light bulb, let alone a match -- Darren Gough
If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb. -- Nathan Fielder
I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one. -- Thomas A. Edison
How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden! -- Brad Warner
How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! ...no eight! -- Bill Bailey
I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends." -- Steven Wright
God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history. -- Margaret Atwood
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
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
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
I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up. -- Jack Welch
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
Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words. -- Roger Kahn
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
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
The bubble, as investing phenomenon, has been well studied ever since the 17th-century tulip bulb frenzy. Its counterpart in bear markets is not well understood. -- Kenneth Fisher
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
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. -- Tom Waits
To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one. -- Edward Walker
Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think. -- Sylvia Plath
Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos. -- Jason Robert Brown
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
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
'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
My co-pastor is Randy Frazee. Randy is the brightest bulb in this box. He really has a feeling for what a church needs in terms of maturity, so I listen to him. -- Max Lucado
Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own. -- Aimee Bender
It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off...When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks. -- James J. Braddock

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