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)

    “We select granite for the underpinning of our houses and barns; we build fences of stone; but we do not ourselves rest on an underpinning of granitic truth, the lowest primitive rock. Our sills are rotten.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)