Top 40 Lamppost's Quotes
#1. If all you did was tell a lamppost your goals for each day, they would still be far more likely to happen.
Michael Neill
#2. Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
Paulo Coelho
#3. The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands what you want to do and is really supportive of it.
Alexandre Aja
#4. Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.
Sherry Thomas
#5. Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.
Dean Koontz
#6. 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
#7. Like a person in a storm desperately grasping at a lamppost, he clung to his daily routine.
Haruki Murakami
#8. So, in a sense, looking under the lamppost for dark matter is appropriate.
Lisa Randall
#9. 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
#10. He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
Terry Pratchett
#11. Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
Vin Scully
#12. 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
#13. Suddenly, she was gripped by the idea that if she changed her clothes her entire life would change as well.
Monica Ali
#14. The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
William James
#15. 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
#16. The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown
Simon Hughes
#17. I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
Salman Rushdie
#18. Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.
Michel De Montaigne
#19. 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
#20. 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
#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. 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
#23. You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.
Seth Godin
#24. When we know we are delaying the consequences of truth, whether buried in our subconscious or ignored by our conscious thoughts, our denial continues to steal our potential for true happiness.
Elaina Marie
#27. I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted ... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director.
Marlon Wayans
#28. 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
#29. Why does humankind love to seek the glory of one another instead of the glory of God?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#30. The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
Ted Rall
#31. 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
#32. As human beings, we're capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience a vast sense of connection to all of life.
Sharon Salzberg
#33. Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
John Osborne
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.
Hamza Yusuf
#39. We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost - for support, but not for illumination
David Ogilvy
#40. I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.
Nate Berkus
