Light Bulb Quotes

69 quotes by 65 authors

The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
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… — Michele Bachmann
My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was… — Tyra Banks
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,… — Joe Barton
The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they… — Jeff Bezos
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a… — Bill Bryson
You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature… — Graydon Carter
[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the… — Francis Collins
[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000… — Francis William Aston
Change your leaders, not your light bulbs. — Thomas Friedman
It's a slow process, but it is scary, because if someone can control your energy sources, they can control you. We are already being told… — Mike Thompson
As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws — Al Gore
It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off...When he knocked me… — James J. Braddock
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb — Gene Tierney
Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb. — Gilda Radner
I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When… — Elliott Gould
Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then… — Terry Pratchett
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. — Thomas A. Edison
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… — Max Frisch
The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few… — Stanley Crouch

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