| "Billy Sometimes I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out." »Billy Madison |
| "Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. light is more than watts and footcandles. light is metaphor. light is knowledge, light is life, light is light." »Andrew Schneider |
| "What do you take me for, an idiot" »Charles De Gaulle |
| "Begin today No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have." »Henry C. Blinn |
| "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." »Albert Schweitzer |
| "light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "To generalize is to be an idiot." »William Blake |
| "My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat." »Henny Youngman |
| "Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller |
| "The law is sic a ass - a idiot." »Charles Dickens |
| "In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better." »Ellen DeGeneres |
| "Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant idiot." »Terry Pratchett |
| "No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot." »Scott Adams |
| "There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot." »Steven Wright |
| "The wise man speaks of what he sees, the idiot of what he hears." »Arabic Proverb |
| "No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone." »Thomas De Quincey |
| "And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown.' And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.'" »Minnie Haskins |
| "Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." »William Shakespeare |
| "In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it." »Albert Einstein |
| "The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot." »Salvador Dali |
| "Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded." »Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin |
| "When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light." »John W. Gardner |
| "When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap." »Cynthia Heimel |
| "There are two ways of passing from this world - one in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back but when one passes in darkness, he returns." »Bhagavad Gita |
| "God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things." »Saint Augustine |
| "The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out." »James Arthur Baldwin |
| "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying Nothing." »William Shakespeare |
| "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself." »Mark Twain |
| "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." »Rich Cook |
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