Quotes About Aladdin's Lamp

#1. A writer's thoughts can act as an Aladdin's lamp, which can enlighten and open the mind of a reader, by showing opportunities and beauties of life.

Debasish Mridha

#2. When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp ...

James Russell Lowell

#3. Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin's lamp all rolled into one

E.L. James

#4. A young mark twain on the make: I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.

H.W. Brands

#5. Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.

Alex Faickney Osborn

#6. Aladdin's lamp is mine.

Ira Gershwin

#7. And I look on my brain as a mass of hydraulically compacted thoughts, a bale of ideas, and my head as a smooth, shiny Aladdin's lamp.

Bohumil Hrabal

#8. If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

Gladys Taber

#9. Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Lord Byron

#10. She has given me a way out.

Alison Bechdel

#11. I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.

Sarah Dessen

#12. Art is not a democracy.

George R R Martin

#13. Heterosexuality is considered an emotional dysfunction. Relatively easy to cure.

Joe Haldeman

#14. Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed.

Daniel Keyes

#15. Generally speaking, all true children's stories make promises to their readers. Here you are, they say, unhandy and short, and there is a big world that one day will be yours. Listen to how it happened for Cinderella once upon a time, and Jack with his beanstalk, and Aladdin with his lamp.

John Goldthwaite

#16. How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the djinn when Aladdin rubbed his lamp in the story.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#17. For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is.

Tom Cavanagh

#18. We've resorted to formalities suddenly? Am I to assume we haven't been
intimate enough for you to call me by my first name?" Despite his casual tone, his eyes suggested so much more. "Perhaps I should rectify that.

Melissa Lurquette

#19. Pursing my lips, I strive to appear unaffected by his touch. He is so artful at diverting me from anything painful, or anything he doesn't want to address. And you let him, my subconscious pipes up unhelpfully, gazing over her copy of Jane Eyre.

E.L. James

#20. If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#21. You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided
up America into kingdoms, is that right?

Charlaine Harris

#22. In pleasant peace and security
How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die
He shall look up above the stalled oxen
Envying the cruel falcon,
And dig under the straw for a stone
To bruise himself on.

Robinson Jeffers

#23. In a post-Christian era many of our friends, neighbors, and colleague will reject God for a score of reasons, but we must live and speak that they reject God for God's sake and not because of what we have said or done that has framed God wrongly.

Os Guinness

#24. Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#25. I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

Elizabeth Berkley

#26. When I was a boy, I read with great interest but skepticism about as magic lamp which was used with success by a certain Aladdin. Today I have no skepticism whatsoever about the magic of the xenon flash lamp which we use so effectively for many purposes. (1970)

Harold Eugene Edgerton

#27. Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.

Criss Jami