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Quotes About Lampposts

I was feeling all fertile and blossoming there for a second. And now I just feel like me, on earth. I was floating a little bit there before. I was like a very small version of a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon. I was puffy and needed handlers. I was lumbering through the air, a couple inches off the ground. I was veering toward lampposts.
~ Amy Fusselman
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts — for support rather than for illumination.
~ Andrew Lang
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination.
~ Andrew Lang
For Kirsti, the soldiers were simply part of the landscape, something that had always been there, on every corner, as unimportant as lampposts, throughout her remembered life
~ Lois Lowry
the banality of the rational world and its street signs and lampposts asserted itself.
~ Paul Theroux
My mother looks surprisingly pliable in those old snapshots, as though she liked nothing better than to have her man in uniform arrange her against the porches and lampposts of their humble neighborhood.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
2015, lampposts were falling down in San Diego. You'll never believe why. Dogs were peeing on them, and a chemical in the urine was rotting the metal! Also, when dogs poop, they like to choose their direction based on the Earth's magnetic field!
~ Dan Gutman