Electricity Quote by Melvil Dewey Download Open image “Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.” — Melvil Dewey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Electricity Insignificance Reading Steam
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“Reading is a respite from the restlessness of technology, but it's not only that. It's how I reset and recharge. It's how I escape,… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that. — John Green Copy Share Image
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be passed from… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on. — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information,… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant. — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience. — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
In the Green Zone in Iraq you have your radio, you have your food, you have your own electricity, your own toilets. Everything is… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
'Brace the Wave' is an acoustic-electric record recorded with electricity on analog-digital and digitally-analog equipment. — Lou Barlow Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to… — Felix Bloch Copy Share Image
He’d moved toward me again. His hands released mine and moved to my waist, and I noticed I wasn’t the only one breathing heavily.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
By embracing clean energy across the country, we can create more and better jobs, protect the air our children breathe and the water they… — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
We can go up or we can do down. I think generally the world is going on an upward swing. We're in a part… — George Harrison Copy Share Image