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I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs. -- Robert B. Laughlin
Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen. -- Ella Maillart
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
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
I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen. -- James Van Der Beek
Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb! -- Heidi Klum
Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb. -- Bob Dylan
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. -- Thomas A. Edison
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs. -- Mignon McLaughlin
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
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
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
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
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
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
You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school. -- Graydon Carter
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
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
After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from the Nazis, eating tulip bulbs to fill the stomach and reading Kramers' book "Quantum Theorie des Elektrons und der Strahlung" by the light of a storm lamp. -- Nicolaas Bloembergen
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony. -- Andrei Gromyko
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
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
My latest works are these things with light bulbs. -- Jim Hodges
Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs. -- Ian Frazier
I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide. -- Shuji Nakamura
I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs. -- Alexandre de Betak
We've already seen the federal government stretch their regulatory tentacles into our homes and determine what kind of light bulbs we have to use. -- Marsha Blackburn
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. -- Al Gore
When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun. -- Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don't wait for them to go to school and hope for the best. -- Tony Buzan
I wish I could pull shorts off. My wife tells me that I just can't. But that's okay. I'm tall, I can do other things, like change light bulbs. -- Adam Driver
One action society needs to take is to use energy much more efficiently. Instead of incandescent light bulbs, you could switch to LEDs that consume a lot less electricity, for example. -- Mario J. Molina
Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and at different heights, some of them at times down below the dancers' chest level. -- Robert Gottlieb
Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal. -- Joe Barton
We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs. -- Alice Morse Earle
I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out. -- David Lynch
I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color - it's really like a present from God when something like that is in flower in the middle of the snow. -- Dries van Noten
I'm the breadwinner. I kill the spiders. Actually I don't kill them. I put them in a plastic bag and take them outside. I take out the trash cans. I change the light bulbs. I lug the 50 lbs. suitcases down the stairs. -- Teri Hatcher
One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved. -- George Benson
We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world. -- Sadie Jones
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
You can drive an SUV, but there's a balance. If you do that, maybe use energy-efficient light bulbs at home or just be conscious of switching off lights. If you can afford to drive an SUV, maybe you can afford to make a donation to a wind farm or plant some trees. It's all about balance. -- Orlando Bloom
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. -- Anne Lamott
Change your leaders, not your light bulbs. -- Thomas Friedman
Our tree was so puny we used orthopedic bulbs. -- Milton Berle
Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness. -- Gail Godwin
A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business. -- Shelley Berman
As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws -- Al Gore
I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future. -- Jean Hersey
We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored. -- Oswald Chambers
Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there. -- Ilie Nastase
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
The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies. -- Stephen King
The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies." -- Stephen King
People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths. -- Eudora Welty
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
What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship. -- Julia Roberts
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
Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling. -- May Sarton
I am thinking of our family's womenas faraway bulbs, their historywith crippling loss, and how I am pieced together, shell and sand,from the spine of their collective strength. -- Jerrold Yam
People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started. -- Warren Buffett

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