Light Bulb Quotes - Page 2

• It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

  Benjamin Carson

  Failure, Light, Today

  "Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk". Book by Ben Carson and Gregg Lewis, 2008.

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• I don't know an England player who could fix a light bulb, let alone a match

  Darren Gough

  Player, Light, England

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• As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws

  Al Gore

  Light, Law, Important

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• I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Steps, Self Discipline

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• The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb.

  Elon Musk

  Light, Space, Goal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.

  Al Gore

  Struggle, Light, Law

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• How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, People

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• You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!'

  David Keirsey

  New York, Thinking, Light

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• The newer education put stress on culture ... Saturday mornings, the young were brushed and washed, forced into blue cheviot suits, and dragged to children's concerts to learn appreciation. They wriggled, squirmed, counted the light bulbs in the ceiling, dived under seats to gather ticket stubs, stampeded out at intermissions. The weakness of their bladders was astounding.

  Zelda Popkin

  Appreciation, Morning, Children

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• History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.

  Joseph Heller

  Country, Light, Electric Motors

  Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

  Conrad Burns

  Distance, School, Technology

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• When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize as a conspicuous failure, trumpeted as a wonderful success, I [conclude]... that the writer ... must either be very ignorant, and the victim of deceit, or a conscious accomplice in what is nothing less than a fraud upon the public.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Failure, Science, Light

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• I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel. And it isn't vague, it strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own.

  Joni Mitchell

  Honesty, Order, Light

  "Joni Mitchell: Lament for the Lady of the Canyon" by James Hughes, www.smh.com.au. July 10, 2015.

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• The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

  Michele Bachmann

  Light, Government, Kind

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• 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 wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.

  Kristy Swanson

  Wall, Couple, Light

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He spent more time on the road to Damascus than a Syrian camel driver. And we thought nobody could fill John Kerry's flip-flops! ... [Romney's record was] anything but conservative until he changed all the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for President.

  Mike Huckabee

  Running, Light, President

  "Huckabee throws a Mitt fit" by Maggie Haberman, www.politico.com. February 21, 2011.

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• Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

  Fred Upton

  Light, Air, Environmental

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• Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of himself in the various mirrors in the house - the mirror in the bathroom or the mirror in his bedroom, still lit from above by a single accusatory light bulb - are almost appallingly raw.

  Andrew Graham-Dixon

  Powerful, Self, Mirrors

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• There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves. There is no better time to dance again, to make the most of every crumb of sunlight and warm body and soul with its rays before it falls asleep and becomes only a dim light bulb in the skies.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fall, Autumn, Light

  Paulo Coelho (2014). “Adultery: A novel”, p.87, Vintage

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• 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 weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

  Jeff Bezos

  Home, Thinking, Light

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• 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 a term of endearment.

  Tyra Banks

  Aunt, Light, Used

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• 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, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

  Joe Barton

  Mom, Dad, Kids

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• 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 what light bulbs we can and cannot use...through legislation. We are being forced to fund research into alternative energies sources that are inefficient, and that cause the price of food, energy, and everything else to rise...through legislation...rather than allow free enterprise to allocate funds to those energy sources that will survive through good old American innovation!

  Mike Thompson

  Light, Scary, Innovation

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• Just take me home where the mood is mellow
  And the roses are grown
  M&M's are yellow
  And the light bulbs around my mirror don't flicker
  Everybody gets a nice autograph picture
  One for you and one for your sister
  Who had to work tonight but is an avid listener
  Every song's a favorite song
  And mics don't feed back.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Song, Nice, Home

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• 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 down I could have stayed there for three weeks.

  James J. Braddock

  Light, Boxing, Three

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