Lamps Quotes
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.
one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
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.
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.
I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.
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.
I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.
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.
I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.
I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.
Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.
I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.
In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.
All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.
All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.
The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.
A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon.
Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in London.
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.