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
What did moths bump into before the electric light bulb was invented? Boy, the lightbulb really screwed the moth up didn't it?… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off...When… — James J. Braddock Copy Share Image
“Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stations We crossed cities that turn-tabled all day And vomited at night the… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
“Women sometimes have the problem of trying to judge by artificial light how a dress will look by daylight. That is very… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“H. L. Mencken called it “the one authentic rectum of civilization,” but for most people Hollywood was a place of magic. In… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“And yet on that bench at Jacobacci, I was glad I had left everyone else behind. Although this was a town with… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or… — Andrew Bernstein 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
“From the pavement, I could see the window of Albertine’s room, that window, formerly quite black, at night, when she was not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Her eyes had to adjust to the night sky. She walked away from the house, out of the spill of electric light,… — Don DeLillo 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
“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
“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
“I dislike this whole business of experimentation on animals, unless there's some very good and altogether exceptional reason to this very case.… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light,… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“All her violence had drained away, replaced by a fear older and deeper than anything she'd ever experienced. An old, old recognition.… — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
“If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I can't deceive myself out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House, the residence… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
You know, that's what I've regretted the most, that joy. Of course, later there were times when I felt happy, but happiness… — Susanna Tamaro Copy Share Image
In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
“London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“On Westminster Bridge, Arthur was struck by the brightness of the streetlamps running across like a formation of stars. They shone white… — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
“For me, madness was definitely not a condition of illness; I did not believe that I was ill. It was rather a… — Marguerite Sechehaye Copy Share Image
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