Top 33 Quotes About Lamp Post

#1. Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

H.L. Mencken

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#2. My wife says I'd get philosophical with a lamp post if I thought the thing had ears.

Etgar Keret

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#3. One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.

Mark Nepo

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#4. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
[Time Magazine, October 31, 1977]

John Osborne

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#5. One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post, only for support, not for illumination.

Jaggi Vasudev

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#6. The relationship between the critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue or the dog and lamp post.

Ashwin Sanghi

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#7. He led me out of that tangle of alleys in another direction, it seems, for when we sighted a lamp-post we were in a half-familiar street with monotonous rows of mingled tenement blocks and old houses. Charter Street, it turned out to be, but I was too flustered to notice just where we hit

H.P. Lovecraft

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#8. The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

Cyril Connolly

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#9. Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned odd standing in the open street half-an-hour, with your eye against a lamp.

Charles Dickens

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#10. For a while I didn't have a car ... I had a helicopter ... no place to park it, so I just tied it to a lamp post and left it running. [slow glance upward]

Steven Wright

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#11. This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.

C.S. Lewis

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#12. We're in a world where everything, even a lamp-post, comes to life and grows. Now I wonder what kind of a seed a lamp-post grows from ...

C.S. Lewis

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#13. Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.

Kevin McCloud

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#14. There was only this one lamp-post. Behind was the great scoop of darkness, as if all the night were there.

D.H. Lawrence

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#15. He would make a good lamp post if he'd weather better and didn't have to eat.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#16. Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post - for physical support only.

Tai Solarin

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#17. And here is the sense of its existence: it is conscious of being superfluous. It dilutes, scatters itself, tries to lose itself on the brown wall, along the lamp post or down there in the evening mist. But it never forgets itself. That is its lot.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#18. I'm equally sure, however, that I won't walk into a lamp-post while reading {literature}, like I did with {a legal thriller} all those years ago; you don't walk into lamp-posts when you're reading literary novels, do you?

Nick Hornby

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#19. The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

Fernando Pessoa

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#20. The world's perverse, but it could be worse.

Mona Van Duyn

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#21. I never really thought I went away because I've written all of the movies and I'm produced them all and certainly provided services about and beyond the average producer on two and three. I was on set most of the films and called action and cut a lot of times and did all that good stuff.

Paul W. S. Anderson

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#22. He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.

Charles Dickens

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#23. If you want something go get it.

Glenda Radores

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#24. Don't do coke I don't blow niggas, I don't tell niggas I show niggas

Nicki Minaj

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#25. I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.

Marilyn Hacker

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#26. Oh, but nonsense, she thought; William must marry Lily. They have so many things in common. Lily is so fond of flowers. They are both cold and aloof and rather self-sufficing. She must arrange for them to take a long walk together.

Virginia Woolf

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#27. Depressed people tended to end things on special occasions and party goers drank too much and then got behind the wheels of vehicles. But Valentine's Day wasn't too bad as far as suicides and car wrecks were concerned.

Abbi Glines

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#28. Can the spouse be better than in her husband's company? Where can the soul be better than in drawing near to God?

Thomas Watson

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#29. Description but Holden narrates in a cynical and jaded he offeres thoughtfuland even criticizing him for childishness bothered last row voice in-depth

Anonymous

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#30. You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.

Noel Coward

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#31. They really just taught me at an early age the values of hard work. Both my parents are two of the hardest working people that I know, so that was a big foundation for me and something I really cherish and it really helped me to grow up in that kind of household.

Blake Griffin

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#32. If people don't take politics seriously, then they deserve the jokers that rule over them.

Jit Sharma

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#33. I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.

Ann Hood

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