We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke.… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Playing guitar as a young teen, I didn't really have the little light bulb in my head that said you're committed until… — Steve Kimock 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
I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to… — Conrad Burns Copy Share Image
If you don't know a light bulb is a three-way light bulb, it messes with your head. You reach to turn it… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Often when I'm on TV, they'll ask what are the three most important things for people to do. I know they want… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me,… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
You can think of individuals as different light bulbs. There will be a differences in wattage and in color. There will be… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a… — Kristy Swanson Copy Share Image
Groucho Marx, in his later days, gave me the best review I've ever had and probably will ever have. I changed a… — Elliott Gould Copy Share Image
We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb… — Richard Marx Copy Share Image
Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Great quotes make the light bulb go off in my mind. If you're like me, you'll jump at the chance to bypass… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
I received Christ into my heart and my life began to change. But it was a gradual change. And I didn't see… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to… — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
Without discipline in spiritual pursuits, the central nervous system doesn't have a chance to adjust and grow with the increased demand. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There is a light at the end of the tunnel but first you'll have to find the light switch and change the… — Tim Field Copy Share Image
I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary… — Robert B. Laughlin 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
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
Just take me home where the mood is mellow And the roses are grown M&M's are yellow And the light bulbs around… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our… — Bill Gates 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
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
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