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
“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
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
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 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
The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know… — Nate Ruess 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
One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until,… — George Benson 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
During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like… — Damon Knight 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric… — Louis D. Brandeis 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
[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the… — Francis William Aston 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
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 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Real-time creeps back in, and Lindsay realises the kid's on his knees beside him, saying his name over and over and over.… — Richard Rider Copy Share Image
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