Quotes about Electric

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. Votes: 6

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. Votes: 4

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair. Votes: 4

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. Votes: 4

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer? Votes: 4

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. Votes: 4

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out. Votes: 4

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. Votes: 4

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent. Votes: 4

The Music was like Electric Sugar Votes: 3

Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation. Votes: 3

Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great. Votes: 3

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere. Votes: 3

High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse. Votes: 3

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars. Votes: 3

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars." Votes: 3

If there's anything Breaking 2: Electric Boogaloo has taught me, it's that breakdancing is the key to financial solvency. Votes: 3

Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement. Votes: 3

More than 30 of America's 100 nuclear power reactors have the same brand of General Electric reactors or containment system used in Fukushima. Votes: 3

I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax. Votes: 3

Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force. Votes: 3

Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it. Votes: 3

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else. Votes: 3

In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone. Votes: 3

Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach. Votes: 3

The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes -- and 50 other corporations -- that's the real scandal Votes: 3

The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement. Votes: 3

Body Electric... It is the first song from my new short film called #‎ Tropico that is coming out in the end of the month. Votes: 3

The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly. Votes: 3

What's amazing to me? General Electric has a bigger budget for - special interest budget than all of the oil companies combined, and yet nobody says anything. Votes: 3

Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels. Votes: 3

General Electric, NBC's parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries. Votes: 3

Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones. Votes: 3

At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings. Votes: 3

I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley. Votes: 3

No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric. Votes: 3

From our group, we've had joint ventures with a lot of international companies: Procter & Gamble, General Electric, Sara Lee, currently with Hershey's and Tyson. We've learned a lot of the best practices. Votes: 3

I am fascinated to hear of the impact that ESOPs have had on work-force morale in corporations of all sizes such as Sears Roebuck, Potomac Electric Power, Lowe's Companies and the Dow Chemical Company. Votes: 3

I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of the second half of the twentieth century, to use my father's old term. Votes: 3

I happen to agree with the anti - dictatorship policies, but I don't think it's the role of General Electric to support them or oppose them. They do of course, but I don't agree with that. Votes: 3

Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them. Votes: 3

I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for belief's sake. I mean there's only any point in believing something if it's true. Votes: 3

I'm out talking about this company (General Electric) seven days a week, 24 hours a day, with nothing to hide. We're a 130-year-old company that has a great record of high-quality leadership and a culture of integrity. Votes: 3

Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals. Votes: 3

Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City. Votes: 3

I started my career at General Electric in a small office under a guy named Greg Liemandt, and his direct boss was Jack Welch. I would say those two have had the most profound impact on my career. Votes: 3

Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes. Votes: 3

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. Votes: 3

I took the one letter he had for us. It was from the Switchblade Gas & Electric Company. I didn't know I had admirers there too, but I wasn't that surprised. I threw it in the trash with the IRS's love letters and closed the door without reply. Votes: 3

A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water. Votes: 3

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead. Votes: 2

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. Votes: 2

I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting. Votes: 2

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it Votes: 2

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. Votes: 2

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences Votes: 2

The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries. Votes: 2

For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement. Votes: 2

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair. Votes: 2

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist. Votes: 2

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. Votes: 2

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires. Votes: 2

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll. Votes: 2

By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world. Votes: 2

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. Votes: 2

I just prefer wood. I like the smell. To me, it's a lot cheaper than electric or gas, and it's more convenient. It's just a better heat to me. Votes: 2

I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric. Votes: 2

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it. Votes: 2

A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move. Votes: 2

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it. Votes: 2

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway. Votes: 2

When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes. Votes: 2

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers. Votes: 2

Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything. Votes: 2

Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people. Votes: 2

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. Votes: 2

Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened. Votes: 2

Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals. Votes: 2

There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person. Votes: 2

Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And that's what we must discuss: searching and developing new sources of energy. And that requires scientific research. That requires investment. And the developed countries must be the ones to assume this responsibility first. Votes: 2

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system. Votes: 2

Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars. Votes: 2

It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest. Votes: 2

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer. Votes: 2

I drive an electric car. Votes: 0

I sing the body electric. Votes: 0

I really prefer electric music. Votes: 0

Your electric bills will go down. Votes: 0

Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond! Votes: 0

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. Votes: 0

I wonder if I could make an electric bass. Votes: 0

I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me. Votes: 0

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric! Votes: 0

The roaring street is hung for miles With fierce electric fire. Votes: 0

The family never going anorexic I pay mom mortgage and electric. Votes: 0

Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast. Votes: 0

I would like to throw an egg into an electric fan. Votes: 0

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. Votes: 0

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar... Votes: 0

Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence. Votes: 0

The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current. Votes: 0

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table. Votes: 0

Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire. Votes: 0

Stop all your eyes at this time Right now, I'm electric heart Votes: 0

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection. Votes: 0

Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity. Votes: 0

If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric. Votes: 0

Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity. Votes: 0

New York feels vibrant It feels electric to walk the streets at night. Votes: 0

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution. Votes: 0

I don't believe in the electric cars, but I strongly believe in hybrids. Votes: 0

The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message Votes: 0

New York feels vibrant... It feels electric to walk the streets at night. Votes: 0

At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential. Votes: 0

Going to the electric chair will be the supreme thrill of my life. Votes: 0

I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis. Votes: 0

You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid. Votes: 0

Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain. Votes: 0

A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors. Votes: 0

There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet. Votes: 0

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound. Votes: 0

Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby. Votes: 0

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current... Votes: 0

Actually, I comb my hair quite often. Of course, I use an electric toothbrush. Votes: 0

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical. Votes: 0

Make your next car electric, put solar panels on your roof, and go vegan. Votes: 0

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye. Votes: 0

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it. Votes: 0

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer? Votes: 0

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives. Votes: 0

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock. Votes: 0

Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father. Votes: 0

She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine. Votes: 0

No one realized that the pumps that delivered fuel to the emergency generators were electric. Votes: 0

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Votes: 0

Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive. Votes: 0

I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool. Votes: 0

I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music. Votes: 0

I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled! Votes: 0

Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth. Votes: 0

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. Votes: 0

The atmospheric intensity of two electric lovers is the most righteous place I need to rediscover. Votes: 0

The role of TV at the core of the family is that of an electric nanny. Votes: 0

Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse. Votes: 0

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car. Votes: 0

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets. Votes: 0

I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan. Votes: 0

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants. Votes: 0

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar. Votes: 0

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time. Votes: 0

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. Votes: 0

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees. Votes: 0

... Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world... Votes: 0

The universe gives to those who ask without favor. The electric plug which connects you is desire. Votes: 0

Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me. Votes: 0

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system. Votes: 0

He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus. Votes: 0

My idea of 'roughing it' is when you have to have an extension for your electric blanket. Votes: 0

I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only. Votes: 0

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery. Votes: 0

Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. Votes: 0

Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current. Votes: 0

What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was. Votes: 0

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars. Votes: 0

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward. Votes: 0

California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there. Votes: 0

Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric. Votes: 0

The Holy Spirit's motivation is always the same thing -to charge the word with heaven's own electric power. Votes: 0

There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales. Votes: 0

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. Votes: 0

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger. Votes: 0

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and Im it. Im the electric light. Votes: 0

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'. Votes: 0

I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled. Votes: 0

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound. Votes: 0

days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer Votes: 0

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal. Votes: 0

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar. Votes: 0

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light. Votes: 0

Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled. Votes: 0

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound. Votes: 0

Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion... Votes: 0

Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation. Votes: 0

I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and electric vehicles. Votes: 0

Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens. Votes: 0

We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity. Votes: 0

Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. Votes: 0

As with all travel, replacing familiar surroundings with the unknown fires an electric charge that awakens a sense of adventure. Votes: 0

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass. Votes: 0

We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole. Votes: 0

In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists. Votes: 0

I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food. Votes: 0

America needs to be able to be energy-independent, and the electric vehicle, the battery technology is one way of getting there. Votes: 0

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not. Votes: 0

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air. Votes: 0

I love people who are inches away from completely falling apart. I think that's a fun, electric character to take on. Votes: 0

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better. Votes: 0

To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair. Votes: 0

because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one. Votes: 0

I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band. Votes: 0

So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery? Votes: 0

The first company to produce a certified two seat electric aircraft with a 1.5 hour range will dominate the aviation training market. Votes: 0

"We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions" Votes: 0

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress. Votes: 0

Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery. Votes: 0

The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start. Votes: 0

If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable. Votes: 0

I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world. Votes: 0

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric. Votes: 0

When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar. Votes: 0

Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion. Votes: 0

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? Votes: 0

As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next. Votes: 0

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way Votes: 0

We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it! Votes: 0

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs. Votes: 0

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way. Votes: 0

Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same. Votes: 0

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks. Votes: 0

A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that. Votes: 0

The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me Votes: 0

He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God. Votes: 0

I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [...H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack of styling Votes: 0

I was a nervous child, I was a bedwetter. I used to sleep with an electric blanket and I was constantly electrocuting myself. Votes: 0

A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage. Votes: 0

(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains. Votes: 0

I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds. Votes: 0

What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. Votes: 0

I bought an electric-powered chain saw with a plug-in cord so if I run away fast enough, you can only chase me so far. Votes: 0

You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes. Votes: 0

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires Votes: 0

What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world. Votes: 0

Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages, galvanizing my genes. Votes: 0

Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently. Votes: 0

A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress. Votes: 0

I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan Votes: 0

One more secret smile. One more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn't know I was searching for. Votes: 0

Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities. Votes: 0

Suddenly I'm not half the girl I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me . . . From me to you out of my electric devil.... Votes: 0

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier. Votes: 0

If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried. It's actually interesting. Votes: 0

I moved into an all-electric house. I forgot and left the porch light on all day. When I got home the front door wouldn't open. Votes: 0

People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas. Votes: 0

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows. Votes: 0

I like awkward moments. They are full of tension and suspense. Anything's possible or, at the very least, they are the source of some electric sizzle. Votes: 0

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this. Votes: 0

I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear. Votes: 0

We should do another 10 Bad Boys movies. I could come in in one of those electric wheelchairs, like Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, just shouting away. Votes: 0

We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena. Votes: 0

The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy. Votes: 0

It's the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Votes: 0

There are hundreds of electromagnetic cases where spacecraft have been observed by police, military personnel and civilians to affect car engines, radios and other electric devices. Votes: 0

Pikachu, 'pika' is the sound Japanese say an electric spark makes. And 'chu' is the sound a mouse makes. So Pikachu is like an electric mouse. Votes: 0

Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time. Votes: 0

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid. Votes: 0

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish. Votes: 0

UTC Aerospace Systems has a couple of million dollars of content on every single aircraft that gets delivered. That's the chutes, the electric system, rotors, etc. Votes: 0

If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused. Votes: 0

I could imagine that boats sailing in harbors will only use electric engines. And then once they are out in the water they will use diesel. Votes: 0

Quantum physics has found that there is no empty space in the human cell, but it is a teeming, electric-magnet ic field of possibility or potential Votes: 0

It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet. Votes: 0

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything. Votes: 0

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. Votes: 0

Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will take place in future. Votes: 0

What a thrill that will be if I have to die in the electric chair. It will be the supreme thrill. The only one I haven't tried. Votes: 0

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli. Votes: 0

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it. Votes: 0

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage. Votes: 0

I'm feelin' electric tonight Cruising down the coast goin' 'bout 99 Got my bad baby by my heavenly side I know if I go, I'll die happy tonight Votes: 0

There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a pickup truck. Votes: 0

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff. Votes: 0

If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer. Votes: 0

You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care! Votes: 0

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch. Votes: 0

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with Votes: 0

Does the customer invent new product or service? The customer generates nothing. No customer asked for electric lights. There was gas and gas mantles, which gave good light. Votes: 0

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years. Votes: 0

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart. Votes: 0

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there. Votes: 0

What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp and the pageantry! Votes: 0

By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms. Votes: 0

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature. Votes: 0

We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just because the electric car doesn't emit fumes. Votes: 0

If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it. Votes: 0

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it." Votes: 0

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it. Votes: 0

Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become. Votes: 0

The Bangles are proof that short skirts and electric guitars go hand-in-hand. They are one of the great all-girl groups, backing up their looks with a serious pop-rock pedigree. Votes: 0

Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact. Votes: 0

Extreme weather threatens our energy and electric grid, federal buildings, transportation infrastructure, access to natural resources, public health, our relationships across the globe, and many other aspects of life. Votes: 0

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar. Votes: 0

What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was. Votes: 0

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had. Votes: 0

I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell! Votes: 0

The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work. Votes: 0

I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view. Votes: 0

When it came to the discussion about would Harley do an electric bike, I said, 'Absolutely - this is a no-brainer.' Let's define the sound of the future. Votes: 0

My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up. Votes: 0

It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds. Votes: 0

We leave Pippa behind, standing in the dark, teeming bowels of the camp, while the sun begins to stain the sky electric, and from all sides the guns draw closer. Votes: 0

People will buy the car just because it's a great car. We want them to think it's excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric. Votes: 0

Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands. Votes: 0

There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative. Votes: 0

I've got an electric little motorcycle that I go to the supermarket with every day, and it's powered by the solar panels, so it's really got a zero carbon footprint. Votes: 0

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking. Votes: 0

An electron is an electron, but you can decide where to send your electric-bill payment. You can't redirect the electrons, but you can your dollars. The dollars will drive generation choices. Votes: 0

Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events. Votes: 0

Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases. Votes: 0

The air between them was electric, the scent of his aftershave was intoxicating and she could feel the testosterone bouncing off him. She could immediately tell he was a powerful man. Votes: 0

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows. Votes: 0

Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot. Votes: 0

I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair. Votes: 0

Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that. Votes: 0

It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon. Votes: 0

The manufacturers of mechanical typewriters believed that they had developed sufficiently when they introduced electric typewriters. Then came the PC, and the deeply traditional makers of typewriters disappeared from the market. Votes: 0

For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music. Votes: 0

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence. Votes: 0

When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth. Votes: 0

The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system. Votes: 0

She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair. Votes: 0

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself. Votes: 0

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism. Votes: 0

I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds. Votes: 0

I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution. Votes: 0

A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. Votes: 0

Prescriptive regulations, such as telling electric utilities what kinds of coal to burn or what kinds of scrubbers to install on their smokestacks, were not only intrusive, they were also grossly inefficient. Votes: 0

Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph? Votes: 0

Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won't operate at its peak... Votes: 0

For most persons, the mystical kundalini energy is easier to initially perceive, unless you're extremely sensitive. It's more of a rush, a flash. There's an electric quality to it, a burning heat. Votes: 0

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism. Votes: 0

I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head. Votes: 0

Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. Votes: 0

I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams. Votes: 0

London and L.A. are both places I feel I can call home. It's a nice balance of Californian calm and that slightly more engaged, electric London vibe that I've always loved. Votes: 0

This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand. Votes: 0

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. Votes: 0

I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years. Votes: 0

Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon. Votes: 0

Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens. Votes: 0

Just as, when we touch a live wire, the electric force infuses itself into our body, when we deeply meditate on God the power of the whole universe seeks entry into our personality. Votes: 0

I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn. Votes: 0

If I apply a magnetic pulse on salt water - that's your brains by the way - it'll generate electric currents, and the electric current in the brain can erase a migraine headache. Votes: 0

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition. Votes: 0

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. Votes: 0

One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe. Votes: 0

A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand. Votes: 0

I thought about ancient times when we didn't have electric light. People were slaves to the ebb and the flow of the light cycle. Good Morning and Good Night represents one light cycle. Votes: 0

When i believe in everything, I could not seethe actors semicircled around a studio microphoneflipping the pages of scripts in unison.I only heard the voices, resonant, electric, adult,accusing each other of murder. Votes: 0

If it works for the piece of music, I'm going to use it. I don't want to be limited any more than [Bob] Dylan wanted to be limited by not using an electric guitar. Votes: 0

From solar to electric cars, from geothermal to reconfiguring the grid, the scale of investment needed in green technologies in order to meet whatever agreements on emissions reductions are finally agreed will be immense. Votes: 0

Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison. Votes: 0

If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent. Votes: 0

I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling to their electric charges, and opposite electric charges cling to each other. Votes: 0

One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on an acoustic guitar. You must develop it as a totally different thing. Votes: 0

All you need is a pool table, beer, an electric jukebox and good conversation. The day a girl beats me in a game of Beirut [a kind of beer pong] is a good sign! Votes: 0

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'. Votes: 0

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things. Votes: 0

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well. Votes: 0

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room. Votes: 0

It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers. Votes: 0

In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence Votes: 0

I venture to give an alternative method of regarding the processes occurring in the electric field, which I have often found useful and which is, from a mathematical point of view, equivalent to Maxwell's Theory. Votes: 0

Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration. Votes: 0

It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off...When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks. Votes: 0

The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night. Votes: 0

If your songs connect with the fans and they pump their fists in the air and go "Yeah!!" that's when a song really works. That's the electric church of it. The glory hallelujah of it. Votes: 0