Quotes of: Lamp Keyword

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Jane Porter

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.

Joshua Sylvester

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 Timrod

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

Edward Grey

When we turn on the lamp, it gives light to us. Not only for just brighten to us, It is to show so dark within us.

Gaurav GRV Sharma

When we turn on the lamp, it gives light the us. Not only for just brighten us, It is to show so dark inside the us.

Gaurav GRV Sharma

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Walter Savage Landor

As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.

Mary Antin

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

[Aladdin has tricked Jafar into wishing to be a more powerful genie than Genie] Jafar: The universe is mine to command! To control! Aladdin: Not so fast, Jafar! Aren't you forgetting something? Jafar: Huh? Aladdin: You wanted to be a genie? You got i...

Aladdin

Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin's lamp all rolled into one

Fifty Shades Freed

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

Forever Odd

My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.

William Tyndale

Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.

The Lamp

He would make a good lamp post if he'd weather better and didn't have to eat.

Player Piano

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

Maurice Saatchi

When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil lamp listening to my mother playing 'Careless Love' on the piano.

Jools Holland

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 Walker

Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?

Faraaz Kazi

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton