A Light Bulb Moment Quotes & Sayings

I know now that there is something dead inside me though I cannot remember exactly when it died. — Claire North

Poverty and misfortune dig a person to the bottom of a well. — Kishore Bansal

I don't have to walk around in hats or find remote places to go for lunch! I don't get recognised that often. — Michelle Dockery

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence. — Mahatma Gandhi

We tend to think of imagination and foresight like we are prone to think of life (sometimes) -- as an inscrutable flash of something from the outside that magically takes us over some large boundary in one atomic step. We even call it a flash (of insight), a eureka moment, a light bulb in our heads that suddenly turns on. But if you reflect on this phenomenon for a moment, you know you don't go suddenly from a blank mind to a fully formed solution. You were already thinking about the problem, and other near solutions that don't work, when suddenly you see a new connection that enables you to reuse familiar things on a novel way. Insight comes in small increments, leveraging what was already there. — M..

Chickens are true creatures of zen - they live only and absolutely for the moment. Their actions one particular second will not necessarily have any influence or bearing on their actions in the next second, nor are they necessarily influenced by their actions of the prior second. Chicken thoughts arrive in their tiny mad little minds like flashes of a strobe light, each light being an action, each flashing with the brilliance of a not very brilliant thing. Each action utterly random. The complete randomness of chaos. Chickens are notorious escape artists, not due to their ability to devise cunning plans as they huddle together in their coop beneath a bare light bulb, scratching out complex diagrams in the dirt, but simply out of sheet unpredictability. They are the pachinko balls of the animal kingdom, effecting their escapes through the simple device of, say, turning left for no particular reason. — Jeffery Russell

All who love Liberty are enemies of the state. — Karl Hess

My sister the booty police. — Victoria Laurie

How can I afford it? opened up the brain and forced it to think and search for answers. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have one thing in common, at least - a fear of 'dry spells,' dormant periods in which we do no blooming, internal droughts only the waters of imagination and psychic release can civilize. — Gretel Ehrlich

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals. — Alexander Hanson

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home — Jodi Picoult

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them. — Henry Ward Beecher

How peaceful it was, with the light evening breeze stirring the small leaves of the grapevine that clustered around the electric bulb, making the shadows move and change on the yellow mat below. For a moment he pushed aside the thought of money. From time to time the dark water beside them rippled audibly, as if a tiny fish had come to the surface for an instant and then darted beneath. It was in peaceful moments such as this, his father had said, that men were given to know just a little of what paradise was like, so that they might yearn for it with all their soul,and strive during their time on earth to be worthy of going there. — Paul Bowles

The scent of a flower is a very close and intimate thing, she thought. It can seem to be a part of your body and blood. — Elizabeth Goudge

I'd done all the things I thought a person had to do in order to be successful and fulfilled, like getting a great education and becoming a lawyer, and yet there was zero spark in my life. But there was no light-bulb moment. It was gradual. In the early 1990s, I decided to experiment and try some new ways of living. — Robin S. Sharma

To have a "light-bulb moment", the power has to be on. — Jennifer L. Feuerstein