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The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly. -- Nate Ruess
I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light. -- Chubby Checker
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. -- Napoleon Hill
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. -- Louis D. Brandeis
A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. -- Michael Leunig
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent. -- George Carlin
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. -- D. H. Lawrence
Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition. -- Dan Flavin
The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects. -- Clive Thompson
Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else. -- W. Edwards Deming
Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer. -- Jeff Bridges
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message -- Marshall McLuhan
Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby. -- Helen Caldicott
I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and Im it. Im the electric light. -- Chubby Checker
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'. -- Newt Gingrich
Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it. -- Dan Flavin
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
I moved into an all-electric house. I forgot and left the porch light on all day. When I got home the front door wouldn't open. -- Steven Wright
We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows. -- Thomas A. Edison
We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena. -- James Clerk Maxwell
Does the customer invent new product or service? The customer generates nothing. No customer asked for electric lights. There was gas and gas mantles, which gave good light. -- W. Edwards Deming
I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. -- Ezra Pound
I thought about ancient times when we didn't have electric light. People were slaves to the ebb and the flow of the light cycle. Good Morning and Good Night represents one light cycle. -- Malik Yusef
It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off...When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks. -- James J. Braddock
Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration. -- Mark Twain

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