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 Copy Share Image
I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top.… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws — Al Gore Copy Share Image
My co-pastor is Randy Frazee. Randy is the brightest bulb in this box. He really has a feeling for what a church… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it! — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons… — William Powell Copy Share Image
The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of… — David Keirsey Copy Share Image
I do a lot of conferences, a lot of leadership training. For about six or seven years I've been making this statement… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed… — Elliott Gould Copy Share Image
I was never any good at remembering dates, but now I hardly have to. When the first bulb catalogs get delivered and… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The whole subject of the X rays is opening out wonderfully, Bragg has of course got in ahead of us, and so… — Henry Moseley Copy Share Image
Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
As long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The good doctor reassured John these were people who put their psychopathy to good use. They lived productive, well-adjusted lives as surgeons,… — Stephen Reid Copy Share Image
Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“It was in the 1880s, when German companies tried to develop more efficient light bulbs” — Manjit Kumar Copy Share Image
What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future. — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! ...no eight! — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of… — Angelo Pellegrini Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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… — Joe Barton Copy Share Image
The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge… — Gary Soto Copy Share Image