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
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
“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
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
“{ 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
“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 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
“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
“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
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
“That’s a well-thought out layout,” Caldenia said. “But why pink marble?” She waved at the ceiling. “Pink marble, white ceiling, golden accents…… — Ilona Andrews 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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 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
“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
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
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
“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
