As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws
As long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started. I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.
Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.
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.
Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels.
I plant daffodil bulbs about eight inches deep. As I mentioned before, I don't use a ruler. As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise.
Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.
If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.
Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.
She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.
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.
What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?
You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.
Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.
What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.
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!
Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough.
Our tree was so puny we used orthopedic bulbs.
