Lamp

Famous quotes containing the word lamp:

“Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.”
—Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961)

“The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,
So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)