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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars… — Jeff Bridges 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
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
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
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 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
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
“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
It wasn't an architect who did this, but if it had been an architect, it would have been a good day's work:… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Stars, on the other hand, were inexplicable. Not holes in the sky, not candles, not electric lights, not anything that resembled what… — Paul Auster 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
I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one… — Thomas A. Edison 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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