#lamp

Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #electric #elimination #gas #i

The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country. ↗

— George Stephenson

#came #constructed #country #humphrey #i

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. ↗

— Edward Grey

#europe #going #lamps #lifetime #lit

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#got #heard #keep #lamp #love

Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp. ↗

— George Byron

#money #ready #yes

The truck is beautiful.” I breathed. I exhaled. Then I breathed again. “Beautiful. ↗

— Harvard Lampoon

#nightlight #parody #twilight #beauty

Vasco bought a bottle of vodka to celebrate and they drank it in the old sailors' graveyard in Mangrove South. This was where the funeral business had first put down its roots. Over the wall, between two warehouses, Jed could just make out the Witch's Fingers, four long talons of sand that lay in the mouth of the river. Rumour had it that, on stormy nights a century ago, they used to reach out, gouge holes in passing ships, and drag them down. Hundreds of wrecks lay buried in that glistening silt. The city's black heart had beaten strongly even then. There was one funeral director, supposedly, who used to put lamps out on the Fingers and lure ships to their doom. ↗

— Rupert Thomson

#doomeded #lamps #ship #witch-s-fingers #wrecks

No one else could know we were going on a date, though. I needed to protect Edwart in case anything happened. Still, I had never gone out with such a hot guy before, so I sent a vague e-mail to the whole grade saying, “Edwart Mullen and Belle Goose Are Totally Together. ↗

— Harvard Lampoon

#nightlight #parody #twilight #dating

Don't take purposeless people as your leaders. Their life is like an empty book with a nice cover paper and you have attempted to buy it. Of which use will it be to you for you to read blank pages. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#books #cover-paper #lamp #lead #leader

I can’t shop for more clothes, guys. I’m a role model to 1.3 million girls—I have to prove to them that there’s more to life than clothes. ↗

— Harvard Lampoon

#nightlight #parody #twilight #life