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
“Light sensitivity appeared prevalent in humans before the advent of electric lights and streetlights.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light. — Chubby Checker Copy Share Image
Thomas Edisons Mother: Of course Im proud that you invented the electric light bulb. Now turn it off and get to bed! — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of… — Dan Flavin Copy Share Image
“Electric light, the first reliable internal combustion engine, and wireless transmission were all invented within the same three-month period at the end… — Robert J. Gordon 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
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
The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Even if your skin is perfect, even if it's glowing and beautiful, electric lights defeat you. They deaden the complexion, make it… — Diane von Furstenberg 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
"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
“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
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
“And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Embracing a low carbon economy will be as momentous as the previous industrial revolutions. As the shift from coal to oil did.… — Charles Hendry 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
“[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
“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
“Let him get out on the front lines. Let him bring one slow freight through a snowstorm in the Rockies; let him… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“Death, according to Buddhism, is the cessation of the psycho-physical life of any one individual existence. It is the passing away of… — Nārada, Maha Thera Copy Share Image
“I heard them laugh. I turned off the light and tried to go to sleep. It was not necessary to read any… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
“Thinking! Thinking! The process should no longer be merely this feeble flurry of hailstones that raises a little dust. It should be… — J.M.G. Le Clézio 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
“I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as 'Abu Nidal' ('father of struggle'), who was at the time… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“{ From Luther Burbank 's funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
“He tells me how the Great Lakes came to be. All where Lake Huron is now, he says, used to be flat… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“It's a poem about moths. But it's also a poem about psychopaths. I get it copied. And stick it in a frame.… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
“That something I cannot yet define completely but the feeling comes when you write well and truly of something and know impersonally… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image