Top 145 Bulb Quotes & Sayings

When I was 15 and had the light bulb moment I wanted to be an actor, it was my sole focus and goal, and I went after it with determination.

I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.

We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.

I was a bit of a backstage baby, but I wasn't at all precocious, and there was never a light bulb moment when I decided to go on the stage.

The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy.

'Don't be the moth. Be the light bulb.' When I say that I mean don't follow the crowd. Just shine. Be the light bulb. Do your thing. Pave your own path.

How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! ...no eight!

I can't change a light bulb.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh.

I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."

Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.

How can the country that created electricity, the light bulb, modern cinema as we know it, and the Oscar Meyer Weenie Whistle not be purely awesome?

My co-pastor is Randy Frazee. Randy is the brightest bulb in this box. He really has a feeling for what a church needs in terms of maturity, so I listen to him.

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

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.

When Edison first started out with his "crazy" idea for the light bulb, skeptics were unmoved. They called Thomas Edison a con man and taunted him to prove his bulb could really work. Despite the naysayers, Edison pushed on, demonstrating the importance of sticking with his "crazy" idea which would go on to turn him into one of the world's most well-known entrepreneurs. The key here is to fan the foolish fire no matter what!

I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.'

What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

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.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.

Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb!

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough.

How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb?

My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.

Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark.

I don't know an England player who could fix a light bulb, let alone a match

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.

I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.

The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.

It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs.

It goes back to the starfish. That's when the light bulb really popped over my head. We'd found one on the beach, and I was struck by what astonishing creatures they are, talking with Dad about how they regenerate.

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.

How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.

[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years.

I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.

If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.

I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but it's not enough.

I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.

We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

If you own face paint and a bulb horn and you're not a circus clown, you might be uncool.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

If you don't know a light bulb is a three-way light bulb, it messes with your head. You reach to turn it off, and it just gets brighter! That's the exact opposite of what I wanted you to do! So you turn the switch again, and it gets brighter once more! I will break you, light bulb!

Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels.

I'm really not handy. I'm not good at things like changing a light bulb. If something is broken, the chances of me being able to fix it are slim to none.

Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.

I was 18 and had an inverted light bulb moment where I thought that nothing I could do or say or how I looked was ever going to be good enough.