
“I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.”
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire
A collection of quotes on the topic of bulb, light, lighting, likeness.
“I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.”
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire
first side of the first tape
1975 - 1992, Oral history interview with Joan Mitchell, 1986
“Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.”
Heard in the D. A. Pennebaker documentary Dont Look Back (1967)
Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
New York Herald Tribune, 30 June 1953 http://www.bartleby.com/63/94/1094.html
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 36
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, " A History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 29: Plant Disease Studies During the 1700s http://esapubs.org/bulletin/current/history_list/history29.pdf." in: Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, July 2008, p. 231-242.
"Postscript", p. 157.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
On the writing period of Blue
Woman of Heart and Mind: A Life Story (2003)
Speech at Stanford University 2 March 2011 http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2669<!-- This joke had been in circulation many years previously. Is there any reason to believe it is original to Kawasaki? -->
Bucky Katt, Dialogue
Source: Emir's Education In The Proper Use of Magical Powers (1979), p. 65-66
“We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Speech at Stanford University 2 March 2011 http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2669
" Farm Sanctuary Exclusive: Alison Becker Heads To LA With Dreams Of Electric Cars http://www.ecorazzi.com/2008/12/10/farm-sanctuary-exclusive-alison-becker-heads-to-la-with-dreams-of-electric-cars/", interview with Ecorazzi (10 December 2008).
"Murder by Gun Control".
Source: Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972), p. 133.
“How many Microsoft employees does it take to screw in a light bulb?”
The answer to that is none because Bill Gates has declared darkness the new standard.
Speech at Stanford University 2 March 2011 http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2669
“How many Macintosh division employees does it take to screw in a light bulb?”
The answer is one. The Macintosh division employee holds up the light bulb and expects the universe to revolve around it.
Speech at Stanford University 2 March 2011 http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2669