Electrical Fire Select

Famous quotes containing the words electrical, fire and/or select:

    “Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.”
    —Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl Rosebery (1847–1929)

    “Do they know they’re old,
    These two who are my father and my mother
    Whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?”
    —Elizabeth Jennings (b. 1926)

    “Why does he not know how to select servants? The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.”
    —Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)