“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against… — Max Frisch 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
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
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
“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
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
“She gave a low and delighted chuckle. Her eyes were black as a moonless December night and reflected the electric lights like… — Elizabeth Wein 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
“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
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
“The ownership and operation of municipal light plants stands upon a different basis from that of the ownership of water works, with… — Susan P. Crawford 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
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
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
When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the… — Henry Morton Stanley 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
“Mr. Marsham was born (in 1822) into a world that was still essentially medieval—a place of candlelight, medicinal leeches, travel at walking… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
