Light Bulb Quotes

“How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel?
We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Great North Road

“God is the light bulb, to where faith is the light switch.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The bare bulb in the middle of the room dimmed and brightened, brightened and dimmed again. It had taken on the rhythm of the bell, burning its hottest on each chime. In the troughs between the chimes the darkness in the room became utter; it was as if the world he had occupied for twenty-nine years had ceased to exist. Then the bell would sound again, and the bulb burn so strongly it might never have faltered, and for a few precious seconds he was standing in a familiar place, with a door that led out and down and into the street, and a window through which-had he but the will (or strength) to tear the blinds back-he might glimpse a rumor of morning.”
― Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

“[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.”
― Francis William Aston

“The Moon is not an Electric light bulb!”
― Avijeet Das

“The invention of the light bulb has greatly reduced the number of times we look at, and therefore the number of times we think about, the moon and the stars.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I will be forever grateful to Dora Brooking, for not only spotting my light bulb but also helping me turn up the wattage.”
― Simon Pegg, Nerd Do Well

“The Moon is not an electric light bulb that you can change with another!”
― Avijeet Das

“Don't dim your light bulb moments.”
― Christine E. Szymansk

“Nowadays, any light bulb fancies itself a star on the Internet.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration - said the genius who was 1% showman and 99% fraud.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch