Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neal Hunter

The light bulb has been around for 100 years. It's a great invention and a great light source ... but after 100 years, you would think we would make some progress from the efficiency standpoint.

Jon Favreau

Ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential,' I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is like being on a pirate ship; it's not like 'Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?' or whatever my impression was as I was growing up.

Brian Martin

Edison tried his light bulb a thousand times. I don't want to do this (assembling a prototype for testing) a thousand times.

Laura Harris

We moved Nick from middle blocker to outside hitter and a light bulb went on.

Sathya Baba

I am the current that flows into every bulb and illuminates it. Those who see me as separate are seeing falsehood. I am in your hearts; you are in Mine. Don't be misled into doubt and distress.

Al Boliska

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

Pele

I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important.

Frank Wood

He was the kind of guy, when things were down, he brightened them up. He was happy-go-lucky ... and that light shone around him all the time.

Richard Posner

The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.

William Jennings Bryan

The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Virginia Woolf

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

Woody Allen

What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.

Woody Allen

When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.

William Wordsworth

A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.

William Morris Hunt

Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.

Sarah Addison Allen

Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

Dennis Mills

This will be the prototype racetrack for the world,

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Jonathan Ive

There are a thousand no's for every yes.

Allen Moore

It was something I had done a thousand times,

William Shakespeare

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Kaley Cuoco

As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

Thomas Wolfe

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

Derrick Brooks

I would give up one thousand yards to get a win.

George S. Patton

Those who live in fear die a thousand deaths.

Gena Showalter

He’d pleasured Hera and a few thousand others, and when Hera learned about those thousand others…heads had rolled.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Marc Grossman

had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Kwame Brown

I just tried to play the right way.

Bill Laimbeer

I tried hard, it was close, but it didn't happen.

Tom Johnston

I tried to deport him once because he's Canadian.

Jeremy Shockey

I tried it their way and now I wanted to try it my way,