The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.

David Josiah Brewer

David Josiah Brewer

Caught Critic Cruel Day Knife Magnetic May Never Orator Perpetuate Power Preserved Real Real Power Save Science Seize Some Touch Weird Which Wonderfully

Related Quotes

Even a moderniser like Alexander II - who emancipated the serfs in 1861 - had no intention of devolving real power.

AlexanderEvenHad

There's a real power in heels and a good dress.

— Talulah Riley

A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day.

— David Josiah Brewer

AgesBornControl

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

ComicsDrawPower

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

— Joseph Stalin