Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to love under the electric light, it's only possible to observe a victim under it.” — Aleksei Losev Copy Share Image
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I think broadband is to the twenty-first century what electricity and electric lights were to the 20th century. — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby. — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
“It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it! — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Every woman deserves the simple dignity of dying in a bed with clean sheets and an electric light at hand.' -spoken by… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it. — Dan Flavin Copy Share Image
Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I thought about ancient times when we didn't have electric light. People were slaves to the ebb and the flow of the… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop… — Alice Dunbar Nelson Copy Share Image
One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until,… — George Benson Copy Share Image
“Let anyone who believes that a high standard of living is the achievement of labor unions and government controls ask himself the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
"It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow,… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
“Recall, then, some event that has left a distinct impression on you---how at the corner of the street, perhaps, you passed two… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We went up and up into the heavens until people were just dots below us. As we hung right at the top--the… — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads,… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
“The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us. Well before Freud and Jung shined a light on the workings of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“…you know, sometimes an electric lightbulb goes out all of a sudden. Fizzles, you say. And this burned-out bulb, if you shake… — Yuri Olesha Copy Share Image
“I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“[On writing more Sherlock Holmes stories.] ‘I don’t care whether you do or not,’ said Bram. ‘But you will, eventually. He’s yours,… — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
“Christ will never more come down to earth nor will there be any law-giver, nor will murder cease nor theft, nor rape,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One of the less apparent but most profound consequences of domestic electric lighting was the encouragement of reading at home. Increased reading… — David E. Kyvig Copy Share Image
“What can I be thinking of? Just imagine my not having presented myself to you even yet! But as a matter of… — Marcel Allain Copy Share Image
“Imagine that you are in your house—no—you are locked in your house, cannot get out. It is the dead of winter. The… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We tend to be unaware that stars rise and set at all. This is not entirely due to our living in cities… — Robert K.G. Temple Copy Share Image
“The glove comes off, flops loosely over, and there's suddenly horror beating into his brain, smashing, pounding, battering. He reels a little… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Why trust this account when humanity has never been so rich, so healthy, so long-lived? When fewer die in wars and childbirth… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us. Well before Freud and Jung shined a light on the workings of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The sexual eagle exults he will gild the earth once more his descending wing his ascending wing sways imperceptibly the sleeves of… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image