Lightbulb Moment Quotes

#1. There was no lightbulb moment in the story of the lightbulb. By the time Edison flipped the switch at the Pearl Street station, a handful of other firms were already selling their own models of incandescent electric lamps.

Steven Johnson

#2. Anti-"lightbulb moment," the idea that comes into focus over decades, not seconds.

Steven Johnson

#3. Gators are just something you have to accept where I come from. Most don't go anywhere near the houses, even though there are lots of delicious children and dogs there. Every once in a while, though, an alligator has a lightbulb moment and decides to take a stroll and see the world a bit.

Maureen Johnson

#4. Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.

Naomi Novik

#5. The lightbulb was the kind of innovation that comes together over decades, in pieces. There was no lightbulb moment in the story of the lightbulb.

Steven Johnson

#6. I write what I like to read. This guarantees me at least one fan.

Johnny Worthen

#7. Death, as well as fortune, is rather fond of the brave.

Terry Deary

#8. You may not believe it, but standing up to people is the only way to get through life with your mind intact. Nothing was gained by giving in.

Diana Palmer

#9. One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.

Dick Vitale

#10. I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

Rae Dawn Chong

#11. The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#12. For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling ... lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.

Robbie Robertson

#13. It seems to me that few concepts have offered greater scope for human cruelty than the idea of an immortal soul that stands independent of all material influences, ranging from genes to economic systems. And

Sam Harris

#14. I ever retire, I'm going to buy a house in the centre of town somewhere and name it Sea View, just to give people something to worry about.

Jodi Taylor

#15. A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.

Salman Rushdie