Quotes on the topic: Lamp


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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.


When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.


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


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.


To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.


The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.


I have candles, pictures and flowers on my nightstand... and of course a lamp!


If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack.


An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.


Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.


Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.


I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.


Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.


I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp.


Hope is patience with the lamp lit.