Hurricane Lamp Quotes

#1. The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her.
"Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me.
"The big show is inside my head," I said.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives.
[Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit and bright, Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]

Anna Quindlen

#3. When they reach what Sona assumes to be Ashish Roy's room, he notices that a hurricane lamp has been placed aleady on a wooden stool. It casts more shadows than it illuminates.

Neel Mukherjee

#4. My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

Jamie Oliver

#5. I could say she looks like da Vinci's "Lady with Ermine" if there had ever been such a thing.

Michael Cisco

#6. A daddy-long-legs shot from corner to corner and hit the lamp globe. The wind blew straight dashes of rain across the window, which flashed silver as they passed through the light. A single leaf tapped hurriedly, persistently, upon the glass. There was a hurricane out at sea.

Virginia Woolf

#7. Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

Blaise Pascal

#8. Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#9. I wonder if what I did made her hurt as much as she hurt me. Only fair, to trade hurt. But life isn't fair.

Ellen Hopkins

#10. Last time I was starstruck was when I met Roger Federer. He is one of the few athletes that I really look up to - incredibly talented both on and off the track and a great role model for tennis.

Henrik Lundqvist

#11. By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, where he attributes it to engineer James Oberg, who says he stole it from someone else.

Richard Dawkins

#12. It was about them having pride in that and wanting everyone to know it, especially you. Ham

Kristen Ashley

#13. When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.

Katharine Cornell

#14. The wolf lives right here. In this village". He looked at the villages. "Among you. It is one of you.

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

#15. Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.

Dan Millman

#16. If we make wholesome, healthy food accessible and affordable for everyone, we make the choice to be healthy an easy one.

Daphne Oz

#17. Rich could play way better than Krupa.

Al Hirt