Top 40 Lamppost Quotes
#1. You drive well for a woman."
"That is so patronising. If I'd known you were going to say something like that I would have wrapped your precious Ferrari round a lamppost.
Sarah Morgan
#2. Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.
Loretta Chase
#3. I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.
Alfred E. Perlman
#4. Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.
Noam Chomsky
#5. So, are you moving in? Dove tried to look like she was casually leaning against a lamppost. But there was no lamppost, so it looked more like she had injured her back or one of her legs was shorter than the other.
Debra Anastasia
#6. If all you did was tell a lamppost your goals for each day, they would still be far more likely to happen.
Michael Neill
#7. Having realized that her affection for Sinclair went far beyond friendship, there was only one thing for her to do. She took off her hat and banged her head against the nearest lamppost.
Also realizing she was drawing attention from passerby, she put her hat back on and resumed walking.
Shirley Karr
#8. So, in a sense, looking under the lamppost for dark matter is appropriate.
Lisa Randall
#9. Like a person in a storm desperately grasping at a lamppost, he clung to his daily routine.
Haruki Murakami
#10. Tears come to your eyes, and you feel such a rush of tenderness and pity that you stop beside a lamppost and hang on for support.
Jay McInerney
#11. Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.
Dean Koontz
#12. Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
Paulo Coelho
#13. Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
Vin Scully
#14. Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.
Bert Sugar
#15. We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost - for support, but not for illumination
David Ogilvy
#16. I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!
Douglas Adams
#19. What are we going to do?" asked the Professor.
"At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.
G.K. Chesterton
#20. The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
Ted Rall
#21. There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy.
Anna Maxted
#22. Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
John Osborne
#23. If, when reading and walking at the same time, he bumped into a lamppost, he would apologize and check that the lamppost was unhurt.
Katherine Rundell
#24. Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky.
Texas Guinan
#25. Just between you and me and the lamppost, Dylan could easily be any girl's perfect other half. If I didn't already have a perfect other half, I might have been thrilled with the gift of my very own gorgeous mutant.
James Patterson
#26. Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.
Jethro Tull
#27. He's going to learn the hard way. Hopefully he changes his mentality quick.
Dwyane Wade
#28. If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
Amy Koppelman
#29. It is a gift from God. It is breathed into you and, once you receive it, you feel both peace and excitement.
Bruce Van Horn
#30. I support health care reform in this country, but the current bills we have before us are too big, too costly, and the people who send me to Washington to be their voice are opposed to them and this process.
Mike Ross
#31. A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
George Bernard Shaw
#32. I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have.
Peter Hook
#33. Removing a pebble is sometimes enough to change a destiny.
Samuel Sagan
#34. [-] writers never felt they belonged anywhere. That was one of the reasons they became writers.
Nick Hornby
#35. A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in new ways, is a sure sign of a profound change in people's articulation of the world.
Allan Bloom
#36. Agile retrospectives are a great way to continuously improve the way of working.
Ben Linders
#37. Create a life that you truly believe will make you happy.
Steven Redhead
#38. This digital world is what you make of it in the end.
Ciara
#39. Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen.
Sam Childers
#40. What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?
Sarah Dessen
