Lamppost Quotes
- Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? — Paulo Coelho
- Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons would you draw?… — Mark Steyn
- Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than the… — Texas Guinan
- We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost - for support, but not for illumination — David Ogilvy
- The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron. — Ted Rall
- Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. — Vin Scully
- Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the… — Noam Chomsky
- Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost… — Loretta Chase
- What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist. — Dean Koontz
- Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs — John Osborne
- Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. — Christopher Hampton