Quotes About Bulbs

#1. Most of the lights were burning brightly, but near the center of the spool was a patch of unlit bulbs - a substantia nigra deep inside the tangle.

Jonathan Franzen

#2. The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.

Stephen King

#3. I'm the breadwinner. I kill the spiders. Actually I don't kill them. I put them in a plastic bag and take them outside. I take out the trash cans. I change the light bulbs. I lug the 50 lbs. suitcases down the stairs.

Teri Hatcher

#4. Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

Joe Barton

#5. For a long time, for years, I have carried in my mind the excruciating image of plants, bulbs, in a cellar, trying to grow without light, putting out white shoots that will inevitably wither.

May Sarton

#6. Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

Ella Maillart

#7. I have always been sure
That when [the Day of Judgement] comes it will come in autumn.
Heaven, I am quite sure, wouldn't disappoint
The bulbs.

Christopher Fry

#8. Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#9. It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking ... and a general mixture throughout of dwarf shrubs, perennials and ground-covers, with bulbs ... This has been called gardening in four layers, and I believe it to be the most satisfying form of gardening.

Graham Stuart Thomas

#10. I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color - it's really like a present from God when something like that is in flower in the middle of the snow.

Dries Van Noten

#11. He spent more time on the road to Damascus than a Syrian camel driver. And we thought nobody could fill John Kerry's flip-flops! ... [Romney's record was] "anything but conservative until he changed all the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for President."

Mike Huckabee

#12. fluorescent bulbs were the result of a multimillion-dollar program specially engineered to offer the most hopeless light possible.

Marcus Sakey

#13. As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws

Al Gore

#14. 'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and at different heights, some of them at times down below the dancers' chest level.

Robert Gottlieb

#15. I am thinking of our family's women
as faraway bulbs, their history
with crippling loss, and
how I am pieced together, shell and sand,
from the spine of their collective strength.

Jerrold Yam

#16. As Desmond Tutu told me on a recent trip to Cape Town, We are only the light bulbs, Richard, and our job is just to remain screwed in!

Richard Rohr

#17. Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

Thomas Friedman

#18. At Stone's direction, Harry removed ovaries, blinded the female rats, and removed their olfactory bulbs. Sightless, hormone-deprived - it didn't matter. The mother rats crawled determinedly toward the baby rats. They were slower, maybe, but the homing instinct was magnetic, needle to the north.

Deborah Blum

#19. I like your Jesus ... there's no doubt he was a great sadhu, most likely trained in India, but you know, he was wrong about God. God is not a judgemental giant sitting up in heaven, it's a force within us all - we are light bulbs in the electrical system of the universe.

Sarah Macdonald

#20. There was a rumor - a joke? Hard to tell at the DAR - that the fluorescent bulbs were the result of a multimillion-dollar program specially engineered to offer the most hopeless light possible. Cooper didn't know about that, but they did make everyone look two weeks dead.

Marcus Sakey

#21. Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

Ian Frazier

#22. Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

Michele Bachmann

#23. And I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom.

Charles Dickens

#24. I mean, she was just cool, you know? And she didn't even mean to be. She was just a hundred-watt lightbulb in a world of forty-watt bulbs. She shone.

Nick Lake

#25. I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else.

Al Gore

#26. People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

Eudora Welty

#27. Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

Doris Grumbach

#28. I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.

Robert B. Laughlin

#29. We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature ... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle.

Max Frisch

#30. Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.

Thomas A. Edison

#31. I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future.

Jean Hersey

#32. Daffodil bulbs instead of balls
Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
He knew that thought clings round dead limbs
Tightening its lusts and luxuries.

T. S. Eliot

#33. It was a small place with bulbs of alcohol, chocolate, coffee, and tea all set with temperature controls in the nipple, so the uniformly tepid drinks could come out anywhere from almost boiling to just this side of ice. The

James S.A. Corey

#34. Our tree was so puny we used orthopedic bulbs.

Milton Berle

#35. For someone who was educated at Princeton and Harvard Law School, Mrs Obama can also plant garden bulbs without looking as if she is handling nuclear waste.

Matt Frei

#36. Solid ground beneath his feet, dirt under his fingernails, the husbandry of growing things, bulbs and roots, seeds and shoots, this had been his world.

Salman Rushdie

#37. Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.

Chuck Palahniuk

#38. One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved.

George Benson

#39. You can't force them [objectmemories] to flower either. Like bulbs, they show their secrets in their own time.

Anna Smaill

#40. We were the only customers downstairs in the shop and there were no windows and only two dim bulbs, without shades. There was a pleasant soporific smell, as though the books had stolen most of the air.

Ian McEwan

#41. I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.

May Sarton

#42. What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.

Julia Roberts

#43. You can drive an SUV, but there's a balance. If you do that, maybe use energy-efficient light bulbs at home or just be conscious of switching off lights. If you can afford to drive an SUV, maybe you can afford to make a donation to a wind farm or plant some trees. It's all about balance.

Orlando Bloom

#44. All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.

Al Gore

#45. My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Jim Hodges

#46. I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.

James Van Der Beek

#47. Still, he should be forgiven what we all want: forgetting within the fuck. Love is a nervous habit. Haven't many said so? Snacking. Smoking. Talking. Joking. Alike as light bulbs. Drinking. Drugging. Frigging. Fucking.

William H Gass

#48. A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.

Shelley Berman

#49. The more of those little light bulbs that can turn on the better. Eventually you'll have enough to light up a movie screen.

A.D. Posey

#50. All schools have their skeletons. St Oswald's is no exception. Most of the time, we try our best to keep them in the closet. But this time, the only recourse we have is to throw open all the closets, light as many bulbs as we can and catch the vermin as it comes out.

Joanne Harris

#51. Many creative minds, just like many light bulbs, lit up simultaneously, could lead to brainstorming and breakthrough innovation.

Pearl Zhu

#52. I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

Conrad Burns

#53. Not for the first time, Peter thought about how much of our lives we spend sequestered inside small patches of electric brightness, blind to everything beyond the reach of those fragile bulbs.

Michel Faber

#54. Deep in the drilled-in mud of the fields behind me, our bulbs are wrapped in their brittle skins with their messages of color stored inside. Blue iris, yellow crocus, tulips of all colors.

Anna Smaill

#55. I wish I could pull shorts off. My wife tells me that I just can't. But that's okay. I'm tall, I can do other things, like change light bulbs.

Adam Driver

#56. I received Christ into my heart and my life began to change. But it was a gradual change. And I didn't see any flashing bulbs. I didn't hear any thunder. There was no great emotional experience. It was just saying: Yes, Lord Jesus, I want you to be the lord of my life.

Billy Graham

#57. Dreams in your life are like light bulbs that brighten your room. But having them on the ceiling is just not enough; you got to make an effort by pressing on the switch and there it goes taking away the darkness!

Israelmore Ayivor

#58. Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don't wait for them to go to school and hope for the best.

Tony Buzan

#59. Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

Ilie Nastase

#60. I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.

David Lynch

#61. Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.

Henry Ward Beecher

#62. After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from the Nazis, eating tulip bulbs to fill the stomach and reading Kramers' book "Quantum Theorie des Elektrons und der Strahlung" by the light of a storm lamp.

Nicolaas Bloembergen

#63. I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

Jack Welch

#64. One action society needs to take is to use energy much more efficiently. Instead of incandescent light bulbs, you could switch to LEDs that consume a lot less electricity, for example.

Mario J. Molina

#65. I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.

Shuji Nakamura

#66. We don't have any garlic bulbs, so I bring the cauliflower, and hope that any vampires I encounter will be of the myopic, easily duped variety.

Karen Russell

#67. The neighborhood homeowners always knew when she ran by, because they suddenly felt the desire to organize their sock drawers and finally replace those burned out light-bulbs they'd been meaning to.

Sarah Addison Allen

#68. We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.

Sadie Jones

#69. I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.

Alexandre De Betak

#70. We've already seen the federal government stretch their regulatory tentacles into our homes and determine what kind of light bulbs we have to use.

Marsha Blackburn

#71. She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.

J.D. Salinger

#72. We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

Oswald Chambers

#73. Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one. I am aware that I am not a safe person.

Han Kang

#74. When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#75. We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

Mignon McLaughlin

#76. We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.

Alice Morse Earle

#77. Most never received messages from solid-state entities, evil or otherwise (although talking to the furniture, overhead light bulbs, lava lamps, and computer screens is commonly reported, these "entities" do not usually answer back) and never experienced paranoid episodes lasting for more ...

Karl Jansen

#78. Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels ...

Dylan Thomas

#79. I was having a lovely day. It's always a lovely day, for tooth decay.

Eddie Wright

#80. We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.

Allen Ginsberg

#81. If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.

Nathan Fielder