Lampshade Quotes

#1. Nw a kind of no-man's-land occupied by a neo-Elizabethan hugger-mugger of racketeers, drug dealers, gangsters and abortionists, the shark-toothed area seemed only a rowdier version of the city all around - a freewheeling, free-spending center of free enterprise.

Pico Iyer

#2. I didn't know it then - I couldn't have - but in that moment, the rest of my life, or what was left of it, began.

Emma Scott

#3. [Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something.

Steven Morrissey

#4. The lampshade on my head is for my bright ideas. I won't be able to convey them until Monday, when my curtain gets out of the dry cleaners.

Bauvard

#5. Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.

David Stern

#6. In some hotels they give you a little sewing kit. You know what I do? I sew the towels together. One time I sewed a button on a lampshade. I like to leave a mark.

George Carlin

#7. None of us mattered to her, not me, or her critics or defenders. No more than bugs on a lampshade.

Alice Munro

#8. I swung my hips around like I unscrewed at the waist.

Amber Dawn

#9. If I have kids, I'll adopt.

Sarah Silverman

#10. Look at a person's light, not their lampshade.

Gerald Jampolsky

#11. She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one.
Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps.

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. She had big, vague eyes and a big, vague smile, and was always very busy in the way that a moth crashing about in a lampshade is busy.

Frances Hardinge

#13. Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of a white lampshade looming on a wicker table, roused one to perpetual combat, challenged one to a fight in which one was bound to be worsted.

Virginia Woolf

#14. The truth isn't going to bend itself to suit you.

Malorie Blackman

#15. I bored myself to tears with the daytime television drama of confrontation (I've been wronged!). I winced at sluggish morning half-memories of wearing wrongness like a lampshade on my head (I'm mentally ill!).

Merri Lisa Johnson

#16. Both President Obama and former President George W. Bush were interviewed on 'Face the Nation' over the weekend. President Bush said there's a 50 percent chance his brother Jeb will run for president in 2016. Then he said, 'But there's an 80 percent chance he won't.'

Jimmy Fallon

#17. In England, I'm this venerable old granddad, the one who always gets pissed at parties and puts a lampshade on his head.

Fatboy Slim