Lamp

Famous quotes containing the word lamp:

“To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.”
—Mother Teresa (b. 1910)

“Aladdin’s lamp is mine.”
—Ira Gershwin (1896–1983)

“Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.”
—Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961)