Lamppost Quotes: top 28 famous quotes about Lamppost

Lamppost Quotes & Sayings

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I didn't always have things,
but I had people - I always
had people. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love. — Chuck Palahniuk

No matter how bright the light is, you won't find your keys by searching under a lamppost if that's not where you lost them. — Erik Brynjolfsson And Andrew McAfee

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? — Paulo Coelho

Tears come to your eyes, and you feel such a rush of tenderness and pity that you stop beside a lamppost and hang on for support. — Jay McInerney

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. — Vin Scully

Life is the most magnificent dance floor of love. Dance with love to feel the joy of life. — Debasish Mridha

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. — Friedrich Schiller

If all you did was tell a lamppost your goals for each day, they would still be far more likely to happen. — Michael Neill

Like a person in a storm desperately grasping at a lamppost, he clung to his daily routine. — Haruki Murakami

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it. — Loretta Chase

The only way to keep your head above water is to convince yourself you are going to make it. — Dave Pelzer

Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky. — Texas Guinan

She preferred the idea of me more than the real me, I think." "Sexy — Giselle Fox

I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination. — Alfred E. Perlman

It was so easy to play tennis, so easy. — Gabriela Sabatini

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron. — Ted Rall

If, when reading and walking at the same time, he bumped into a lamppost, he would apologize and check that the lamppost was unhurt. — Katherine Rundell

Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs. — Bert Sugar

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold. — John Lothrop Motley

We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost - for support, but not for illumination — David Ogilvy

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist. — Dean Koontz

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men. — Samuel Rogers

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing. — John Jewel

So, in a sense, looking under the lamppost for dark matter is appropriate. — Lisa Randall

Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs. — John Osborne

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination — Nassim Nicholas Taleb