Gas Lamp Quotes

#1. 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

#2. [Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.

Doug Stanhope

#3. If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.

Aleksandar Hemon

#4. A man who despises himself so much that the only way he can alleviate his feelings of inferiority is by stomping down his wife's personality with a daily stream of nasty jibes.

Liane Moriarty

#5. She had no doubt the man would kill her. Stupid things went skating through her mind
she'd never told her mother how much she loved her chocolate cupcakes ... or Felicia what a kind friend she'd been ... or Keith that it was cool and mature that he owned a house, even if it was in Brooklyn.

Stephanie Bond

#6. She (my mom) said that when you need courage the most is when you realize what's happened in your life and you decide to get up the next morning anyway.

Karen Pavlicin

#7. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. It doesn't matter what business you're in. It is the people who achieve things, not capital, and the great advantage for us is that I think women have always known this.

Janet Holmes A Court

#9. Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century
the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp
the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America.

Walt Disney

#10. It's no secret that our nation's public universities want to transform American young people into a bunch of hyper-sensitive, intellectually-neutered cream puffs.

Todd Starnes

#11. Because I've been a full professor doing research and lecturing at the University of California, I didn't have a lot of time to write, so I have always used my unconscious a great deal to do the really heavy lifting.

Gregory Benford

#12. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

Walter Rauschenbusch

#13. A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day ... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.

Oliver Evans