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)

    “Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Here lies the body of Sir John Guise.
    Nobody laughs, and nobody cries;
    Where his soul is and how it fares
    Nobody knows and nobody cares.”
    —Anonymous. From Frobisher’s New Select Collection of Epitaphs (c. 1791)