Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Negroponte

It is going to happen, and if it comes out at $138 so what? If it comes out six months late so what? I tell people I used to be a light bulb and now I'm a laser.

Scott Simms

Now that fluorescent bulbs are more commonplace, that's one piece of the picture that's contributing to savings.

Garrett Ginglen

Since he taught us all of this and raised us to be good, maybe some day the light bulb will come on.

George Benson

One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved.

Edward Walker

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.

Jack Morgan

The power technology in lamps and windshield wipers today are really quite sophisticated. It is under the control of the microcontroller, which tells it how much power to allow. Rather than just turn on, it says 'I know this load on this lamp to be 4A,' and if the load exceeds that value, the lamp will turn off immediately. A traditional relay control would just turn it on, despite the short, and would burn up. Then you would have to buy all kinds of expensive pieces instead of replacing a bulb or a small wire.

Mark Rosekind

Thomas Edison invented the light bulb because he thought sleep was a waste of time. But he was a 10-hour sleeper -- six hours a night and two, two-hour naps during the day.

Allen Ginsberg

We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.

Mike Shern

We're just not playing good hockey right now. We need to put out a good enough effort to win a game. We need more kids to out there and make things happen. I need some light bulbs to start going on in their heads.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.

Doug Ferrari

MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.

Cyril Connolly

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

Diogenes

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human .

Bella Heathcote

I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.

Bob Sowders

We're permitted and licensed for my lamp repair and Tillie's art. It's kind of a two-for-one deal.

Ira Gershwin

Aladdin's lamp is mine.

Bhagavad Gita

As a lamp in a spot sheltered from the wind does not flicker, this simile is used for the subdued mind of a yogi practicing meditation on Brahman.

Rumi

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

Adam Howard

Our lights are probably on until 3 in the morning because there is always somebody here doing something.

Colleen Jones

Maybe I'll take a little consolation in realizing that ? even if I'd played lights out too, she was just going to one-up me all the time.

Dan McCarthy

It is a parking lot out there. The lights are shut down because of this. It is just a nightmare.

Steve Desimone

Jensen is looking like himself. He played lights out this week-he looked like he did in the fall.

Chipper Jones

He's been pretty much lights out since he got over here.

Keenan McCardell

When the lights come on you've got to play like you're young,

Karen Johnson

We need to make sure we have enough people to keep the lights on in New Jersey.

Kim Smith

She can shoot the lights out and that's what she did tonight.

Steve Harrington

We shot lights out tonight. We started to get some stops in the second half. We were just torrid from the outside, especially in the second half.

Duane Starks

Starks said. ''I just think we executed more in the second half.

Colin Cushman

Standish in the second half, that's the story right there. She's the real deal.

Mark Teixeira

That could be it exactly. The first day, I didn't sleep at all. The second day, yeah, a little bit.

Mike Caldwell

Our possessions were about 10 seconds long. Theirs were for about 40 seconds long.

Nancy Keller

We now have a new tool we can use to find secondary metabolites that are of pharmaceutical interest.

Ron Gardenhire

I think the second time around we'll see where we're at here.

Acie Law

That's the second time today someone's done that.

Brenda Frese

I think it was like 10 seconds after the game.

Greg Thompson

I think it's who comes in second place.

David Baker

I will do what it takes to get through this year,

James Johnson

I think they've done as much as they've been able to do. It takes a break, some remark.

Mike Parker

That's the sixth-best in the United States. She's getting to be where she wants to be. Forty-seven takes her to her new goals.

P. Herbert

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

Ben Crenshaw

I don't know where this week is going to lead, but I've had so much fun. I'm just going to kind of see where it takes me.

Reggie Williams

I feel free. It just takes time sometimes.

Patrick Foley

It can get complicated. It takes time, and there are a lot of legal-document translations.

Jenny Lewis

I think it's always an adjustment for me, but I do feel like, ultimately, I can kind of write anywhere. It just takes a second to get back in to the groove.

David Burroughs

If it takes one day, three days, 365 days, that it will have to be.