“It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.” — Christopher Bram 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
“The pool was steaming in the cold night air, and an electric light glowed under the water.” — Daniel O'Malley 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“No invention ever comes into being fully developed in a single step, from nothing. Ten thousand inventions had to be in place… — Daniel Quinn 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
“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
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
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
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only,… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“He would keep what he would always believe had to be a false memory of her falling like a booted Icarus out… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“To transport this way along bouncy mountain roads is not the way to die. Every woman deserves the simple dignity of dying… — Joe Niemczura 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
“Martin thought of the iron El trestles winding and stretching across the city, of department store windows and hotel lobbies, of electric… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with… — Ambrose Bierce 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
“You big ugly. You too empty. You desert with your nothing nothing nothing. You scorched suntanned. Old too quickly. Acres of suburbs… — Ania Walwicz Copy Share Image
“What is the colour of Christmas? Red? The red of the toyshops on a dark winter’s afternoon, Of Father Christmas and the… — William Sansom 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
“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
“{ 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
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with… — Thomas A. Edison 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
“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
![“[On writing more Sherlock Holmes stories.] ‘I don’t care whether you do or not,’ said Bram. ‘But you will, eventually. He’s yours, till death do you part. Did you really think he was dead and gone when you wrote “The Final Problem”? I don’t think you did. I think you always knew he’d be back. But…” quote by Graham Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ad6/graham-moore-18909_dead-and-gone_on-writing-more-sherlock-holmes-stories_158928.jpg)
