quotes about Lamps
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Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.
-- Aristotle Onassis -
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I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.
-- Bella HeathcoteSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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.
-- Brad Pitt -
I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.
-- Chinmayananda Saraswati -
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During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When the power came on again, I discovered that I was actually disappointed. The electric lights seemed cold and impersonal; they revealed too much.
-- Damon Knight -
I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.
-- Dean Koontz -
I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.
-- Denis Healey -
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human .
-- DiogenesSource : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.
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Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.
-- Edgar DegasSource : Edgar Degas, Jean Sutherland Boggs (1988). “Degas [exposition]”, p.535, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.
-- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury -
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.
-- Edward S. Walker, Jr. -
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?
-- Faraaz Kazi -
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If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.
-- Francis Quarles -
And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the town.
-- Frank Dempster ShermanSource : Frank Dempster Sherman (1917). “The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman”
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A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.
-- Frank Gehry -
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
-- George Carlin -
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If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.
-- George H. W. Bush -
There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.
-- George Stillman HillardSource : George Stillman Hillard (1854). “Six Months in Italy”, p.52
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
-- George William CurtisSource : George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses”
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I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
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I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.
-- Heidi Julavits -
Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.
-- Henry TimrodSource : Henry Timrod (1873). “The Poems of Henry Timrod”, p.131
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Our hearts are lamps for ever burning...
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
-- James Russell LowellSource : James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.406
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp...
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Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
-- Jane PorterSource : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.105
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Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.
-- Jeffrey Robinson -
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The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
-- Joseph Joubert -
I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps, I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His Day is marching on.
-- Julia Ward Howe -
You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.
-- Juliet Marillier -
All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
-- Kabir -
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God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings.
-- Karen Armstrong -
I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.
-- Kate SpadeSource : "Kate Spade offers insights on her stylish home". Interview with Stacy Downs, www.kentucky.com. September 29, 2012.
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What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always the same oil in the lamp.
-- Katharine Fullerton GerouldSource : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
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I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.
-- Ken Livingstone -
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For the dharma to become firsthand knowledge-to feel the ‘ouch’ of it-you have to live intimately with it, hold it up to scrutiny, and let it hold you up to scrutiny. In the end, the ball is always thrown back to you: ‘Be a lamp unto yourself,’ says the Buddha. In other words, you must ultimately find the way on your own, by putting your ideas of the truth to the test. Your questions light the way.
-- Larry Rosenberg -
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
-- Letitia Elizabeth LandonSource : Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.70
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As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family. Tradition doesn't have to be logical; it only has to emphasize the light of Christ and his everlasting love.
-- Lori CopelandSource : Lori Copeland (2009). “The Christmas Lamp: A Novella”, p.60, Zondervan
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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine -
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Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of these things, everything has been designed by somebody.
-- Massimo Vignelli -
I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.
-- Matt SmithSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.
-- Maurice Saatchi -
Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.
-- Moderata FonteSource : Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) Fonte (2007). “The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men”, p.58, University of Chicago Press
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To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
-- Mother Teresa -
I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.
-- Nikola Tesla -
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
-- Patrick Henry -
When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.
-- Philip James Bailey -
I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi.
-- Pranab MukherjeeSource : "EXCLUSIVE: India's President talks to New Era". Interview with Chrispin Inambao, weekend.newera.com.na. June 16, 2016.
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Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
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Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.
-- Robert Aris WillmottSource : Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.23
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All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.
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It never fails - you get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp
-- Robin Williams -
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Light that is One though the lamps be many.
-- Robin Williamson -
The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things.
-- Rumi -
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
-- Rumi -
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A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps.
-- Theodore L. CuylerSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 521, 1895.
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The cry of distress lays hold of our Lord's omnipotence. It is as easy for God to supply thy greatest as thy smallest wants, even as it was within His power to form a system or an atom, to create a blazing sun as to kindle the fire-fly's lamp.
-- Thomas GuthrieSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 273, 1895.
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The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.
-- Thomas GuthrieSource : Thomas Guthrie (1857). “The city, its sins and sorrows: being a series of sermons from Luke XIX.41”, p.17
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
-- Virginia Woolf -
He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.
-- Wasif Ali Wasif -
[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!
-- William MathewsSource : William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.93, Belford Bros.
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I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.
-- William Shenstone -
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If I had all the money in the world, I'd be like, "Great, let's just keep doing it!" I, unfortunately, have not won the lottery or found the magic genie lamp.
-- Zachary Levi -
Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.
-- Austin O'Malley -
Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.
-- BonaventureSource : Saint Bonaventure, Aeterna Press (1881). “The Life of Christ”, p.99, Aeterna Press
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Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner!
-- Red Buttons -
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It is unnecessary to understand electromagnetic theory before wiring a lamp or to study physics in order to repair a pump. We count on our fingers and give no heed to the proliferating implications of the act.
-- James R Newman -
The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.
-- William FalconerSource : William Falconer, John Mitford (1836). “The Poetical Works of William Falconer”, p.59, London, W. Pickering
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Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.
-- Kenny Werner