#light

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#bill #bought #bulbs #bureaucracy #buy

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#fame #light #like #river #solid

I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food. ↗

— John Bachman

#alight #any #bush #either #food

The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#again #come #discrimination #does #goes

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american #american public #commentators #conditioned #down

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart. ↗

— Russell Baker

#heart #heavy #light #verse #you

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings. ↗

— Balthus

#desire #extraordinary #feel #i #i always

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home. ↗

— Leslie Banks

#contest #enter #home #honesty #i

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#because #bigger #bottom #bulb #call

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#around #black #circle #dead #drag