Electrical Power Received

Famous quotes containing the words electrical, power and/or received:

    “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)

    “A photo of someone else’s childhood,
    a garden in another country—world
    he had no part in and has no power to imagine:
    yet the old man who has failed his memory
    keens over the picture— ‘Them happy days—
    gone—gone for ever!’”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses—once!”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)