A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.
We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.
We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!
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.
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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.
[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 East and West coasts without knowing the state, much less the town or street the house is on.
Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.
Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.
How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb?
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.
We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. "L. B. J. " should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.
I'm glad. . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying.
Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.
Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels.
Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark.
So if you ever felt something behind you, when you weren't even one, like welcome heat, like a bulb, like a sun, trying to shine right across the universe - it was me. Always me. It was me. It was me.
How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
