Quotes about Electricity

Electricity is really just organized lightning. Votes: 6

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. Votes: 6

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity. Votes: 4

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day. Votes: 4

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else Votes: 4

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. Votes: 4

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: 4

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me. Votes: 4

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. Votes: 4

Electricity comes from other planets. Votes: 3

Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes. Votes: 3

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity. Votes: 3

Electricity is really just organized lightning Votes: 3

Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal. Votes: 3

Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive. Votes: 3

Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized. Votes: 3

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials. Votes: 3

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything! Votes: 3

Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything. Votes: 3

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking Votes: 3

Electricity sparked between them at the touch, and she savored the way he made her yearn. How the crush of their lips together inspired revelations. Votes: 3

Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source of carbon-free electricity in the country. Votes: 3

Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human. Votes: 3

Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first novel this promising since The Confederacy of Dunces. Votes: 3

Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded. Votes: 3

Electricity is but yet a new agent for the arts and manufactures, and, doubtless, generations unborn will regard with interest this century, in which it has been first applied to the wants of mankind. Votes: 3

Electricity transmission operates on a frequency between 49.7 Hertz and 50.2 Hertz. What I have done is petitioned the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and squeezed this band to now 49.9 Hertz to 50.1 Hertz. This will contain volatility. Votes: 3

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign. Votes: 3

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it Votes: 3

Electricity was a reality in the universe when Moses led the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. This is true of all natural laws; they have always existed but only when understood may they be used. Votes: 3

The computers in Atlantis were infinitely evolved as opposed to what we see today. The science, the technology, everything was really done with light. All processing was done with light, with crystal formations and structures. Electricity is much too slow. Votes: 3

The computers in Atlantis were infinitely evolved as opposed to what we see today. The science, the technology, everything was really done with light. All processing was done with light, with crystal formations and structures. Electricity is much too slow. Votes: 3

India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas. Votes: 3

It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so. Votes: 3

Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas Votes: 3

In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble. Votes: 3

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no Votes: 3

Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that. Votes: 3

Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that. Votes: 3

They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity. Votes: 2

Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. Votes: 2

If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight. Votes: 2

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? Votes: 2

To avoid a blackout, electricity generating companies must lower generation in line with low demand. Votes: 2

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money. Votes: 2

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow. Votes: 2

We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy. Votes: 2

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy. Votes: 2

You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there's a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there. Votes: 2

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. Votes: 2

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Votes: 2

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region. Votes: 2

I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems. Votes: 2

If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity. Votes: 2

The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs. Votes: 2

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. Votes: 2

An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job. Votes: 2

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts. Votes: 2

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child. Votes: 2

We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability. Votes: 2

And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous. Votes: 2

If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix. Votes: 2

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. Votes: 2

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles. Votes: 2

It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury. Votes: 2

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety. Votes: 2

A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours - one reason the globe, if looked at from a certain height, is a cluster of lights surrounded by enormous patches of dark. Votes: 2

Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order. Votes: 2

For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity. Votes: 2

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left. Votes: 2

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home. Votes: 2

As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end. Votes: 2

I am such a sap when it comes to love! I believe in love at first sight all the way. But that's just the way it happened to me with my relationships. I love the idea of two people looking at each other and electricity flying around them; it's so romantic, and it's a great feeling. Votes: 2

Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter. Votes: 2

I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley. Votes: 2

I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards. Votes: 2

I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water. Votes: 2

Brunettes are full of electricity. Votes: 1

People always switched on turn me off. Votes: 1

Harmonics are the cancer of the electrical system. Votes: 1

Atomic power will make electricity too cheap to meter Votes: 1

Connecting products to the Web will be the 21st century electrification. Votes: 1

God is the light bulb, to where faith is the light switch. Votes: 1

There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will. Votes: 1

Faraday has the Cage, Tesla has the Coil and Magee has the Sandwich! Votes: 1

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles. Votes: 1

I call supplementing with electrolytes and metals: The Electrical Chemistry of the Human Votes: 1

violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature. Votes: 1

I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City. Votes: 1

Love is like electricity sometimes; it may shock you anytime, yet you cannot live without it. Votes: 1

Soon now, the faint tinkling of a broken filament will become another sound of another century. Votes: 1

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? Votes: 1

You should be aiming to illuminate your indoor daytime environment with natural outdoor light, not electrical lighting products. Votes: 1

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. Votes: 1

Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion. Votes: 1

Some Women have this thermogenic effect on you, even after they've left, you can still breathe her scent, feel her electricity & be stunned Votes: 1

It may be possible that Leukemia in children is linked to the location of the fuse board and the electrical meter on the home. Votes: 1

The night crackled Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends. Votes: 1

Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the next generation. Votes: 1

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: 1

take off your sweater in the darkness and static flares as a tiny lightning storm - I am the same at the end of your fingertips Votes: 1

Dr. John Nash Ott had discovered by 1987 that glass, artificial light sources, electricity and electronic systems were having extensive detrimental effects on plants, animals and humans. Votes: 1

I knew a kid who stuck a knife in the toaster on a few occasions. He learned it hurt. He grew up to be a great electrician. Votes: 1

I should invent a stationary bike/electrical generator/phonograph player, so that when the grid goes down I will have motivation to exercise for my nightly entertainment. Votes: 1

I've found out so much about electricity that I've reached the point where I understand nothing and can explain nothing.[Describing his experiments with the Leyden jar.] Votes: 1

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: 1

Electrical earth (ground) cables are all energized with radio frequencies (RF). Generally the further away from the ground rod you go, the more RF that you will find. Votes: 1

The current generation of solar and wind power systems generally introduce instability into the electrical utility grid system with their intermittent power generation characteristics and electronically generated harmonic energy. Votes: 1

I have been through the OSHA system twice and I can confirm that I did not have the right to a safe workplace or whistle-blower protection on either occasion. Votes: 1

It really should be a criminal offense for an electrician to mount a breaker box on a bedroom wall. Unfortunately, I see the solar industry mounting inverters on bedroom walls also! Votes: 1

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs. Votes: 1

Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor. Votes: 1

There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards. Votes: 1

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.[G. W. Richmann died from being hit by lightning, which he had been investigating.] Votes: 1

With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything Votes: 1

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.{Commenting on Henri Becquerel's process for extracting metals by voltaic means.} Votes: 1

For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two? Votes: 1

Every time the wind blows I think of her. I wonder if I could generate electricity off my yearning. Maybe a mind wind farm of some kind. Hopefully I could provide enough power for all the lonely people in my bathtub to stay warm. Votes: 1

The USA government states that the New Mexico Trinity nuclear bomb site is still highly radioactive and 'harmless'. It is interesting to note in the era of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) that it is USA government policy that radio frequency (RF) and electricity are also 'harmless'. Votes: 1

During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When the power came on again, I discovered that I was actually disappointed. The electric lights seemed cold and impersonal; they revealed too much. Votes: 1

The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary portions, which behave like atoms of electricity. Votes: 1

The house, and all the objects in it, crackled with static electricity; undertows washed through it, the air was heavy with things that were known but not spoken. Like a hollow log, a drum, a church, it was amplified, so that conversations whispered in it sixty years ago can be half-heard today. Votes: 1

One of the problems with climate change, global warming and global air pollution is that it may change the frequency and intensity of electrical storm activity. Too much lightning activity may cause excessive mating, aggression, fatigue, illness and disease to occur. Too little may turn off the animal and plant breeding cycles. Votes: 1

Op die manier is de elektrische stoel uitgevonden. Uitgedokterd door Edison die de gevaren van de wisselstroom wilde tonen en zijn idee vervolgens verkocht aan de Sing-sing-gevangenis waarop het tot op de dag van vandaag wordt gebruikt. Heerlijk, vind je niet? Als de wereld niet zo prachtig was, zouden we allemaal nog cynici worden. Votes: 1

My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping keystroke via her wireless connection, chilling that house, that one room, meat locker cold, ski-slope cold, spending a king's ransom on Freon and electric power, trying to make some doomed ten bucks' worth of pretty pink flowers last one more day. Votes: 1

She knew they were all afraid. But love and disease are both like electricity, Weetzie thought. They are always there -- you can't see or smell or hear, touch or taste them, but you know they are there like a current in the air. We can choose, Weetzie thought, we can choose to plug into the love current instead. Votes: 1

Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth. Votes: 1

In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a row on top of a giant podium. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes speaks the majority opinion: 'Water power, the right to convert it into electric energy, and the electric energy thus produced constitute property belonging to the United States. Votes: 1

The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish beyond a doubt the fact that electric currents actually traverse the earth's crust. The theory that the earth acts as a great reservoir for electricity may be placed in the physicist's waste-paper basket, with phlogiston, the materiality of light, and other old-time hypotheses. Votes: 1

Mysterious affair, electricity. Votes: 0

Sparks fly, it's like electricity... Votes: 0

Brunettes are full of electricity. Votes: 0

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life Votes: 0

Without electricity, the air would rot. Votes: 0

Because I'm in advertising, not electricity! Votes: 0

That impresses me more, inventin' electricity. Votes: 0

Without electricity, there can be no art. Votes: 0

Real film is light; digital is electricity. Votes: 0

God is the electricity and we are the lamps. Votes: 0

A smile costs less than electricity, but gives much light . Votes: 0

We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings. Votes: 0

Love is the strongest medicine. It is more powerful than electricity. Votes: 0

Science knows the qualities of electricity, but not its real essence. Votes: 0

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple Votes: 0

When our fingers touch a crackle of electricity passes between us. Votes: 0

I've never seen electricity, that's why I don't pay for it Votes: 0

We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricity Votes: 0

That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going. Votes: 0

I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing. Votes: 0

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. Votes: 0

The good things in life are free, except for health care, and electricity. Votes: 0

The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists. Votes: 0

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak. Votes: 0

I believe that access to electricity and light can radically improve people‚ lives. Votes: 0

Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Votes: 0

Within a few decades...the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine... Votes: 0

Country has to stop giving electricity for free. It is like giving people cocaine. Votes: 0

What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away. Votes: 0

Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works. Votes: 0

I don't know how electricity works. All I know is that it calms me. Votes: 0

Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real. Votes: 0

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. Votes: 0

If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world. Votes: 0

Mind exists as a Principle in the universe, just as electricity exists as a principle. Votes: 0

Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience. Votes: 0

The electricity tariff in Punjab is highest in north India, and it should be decreased. Votes: 0

The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you. Votes: 0

Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market. Votes: 0

Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Votes: 0

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. Votes: 0

Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must've been something before electricity. Votes: 0

First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel. Votes: 0

I think that all the years of exposure to amps and electricity has altered my body chemistry. Votes: 0

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see its light shining on you. Votes: 0

The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development Votes: 0

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire. Votes: 0

I could be a millionaire if I knew how to make stuff and wasn't afraid of electricity. Votes: 0

Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us. Votes: 0

The brain is a little saline pool that acts as a conductor, and it runs on electricity. Votes: 0

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use. Votes: 0

Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane. Votes: 0

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them. Votes: 0

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. Votes: 0

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity. Votes: 0

Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins. Votes: 0

So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more. Votes: 0

Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive. Votes: 0

The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business. Votes: 0

Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours. Votes: 0

Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life. Votes: 0

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. Votes: 0

Like electricity, the Light is everywhere, but one must know how to activate it. I have come for that. Votes: 0

For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money. Votes: 0

Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out. Votes: 0

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me. Votes: 0

Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap. Votes: 0

Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil. Votes: 0

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day. Votes: 0

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. Votes: 0

The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity... Votes: 0

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation. Votes: 0

Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster? Votes: 0

On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence. Votes: 0

We have to address the issues which prevent clean cities, clean rivers, regular, uninterrupted supply of essentials like water and electricity. Votes: 0

The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity. Votes: 0

Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity - you couldn't flush the toilet without it. It's a huge dependency situation. 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

Oh Julie, wouldn't I know if you were dead? Wouldn't I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart? Votes: 0

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. Votes: 0

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic. Votes: 0

I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do. Votes: 0

they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August Votes: 0

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now. Votes: 0

There are two things that people [are surrounded by and] avoid trying to understand. One is music, and the other is electricity. Votes: 0

You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won't change. Votes: 0

They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity. Votes: 0

Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years. Votes: 0

Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power. Votes: 0

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food. Votes: 0

My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation. Votes: 0

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy. Votes: 0

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA. Votes: 0

There are 18,500 villages in the country where electricity is yet to reach. We want to ensure these villages are electrified within the next 1000 days. Votes: 0

Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing. Votes: 0

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA." Votes: 0

Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation. Votes: 0

Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair? Votes: 0

When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good. Votes: 0

It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it. Votes: 0

I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something. Votes: 0

The night crackled ... Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends. Votes: 0

The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating. This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless. Votes: 0

The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera. Votes: 0

All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it! Votes: 0

And then the turbines generate electricity that goes into the whole town.""You mean they aren't powered by giant hamsters on wheels? I was misinformed. Votes: 0

Let each one of us not waste electricity at home. By doing this, we will also light a lamp in the home of a poor. Votes: 0

If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can. Votes: 0

As you know, Hurricane Sandy has affected thousands of families, leaving them without electricity, without household goods and, in the worst cases, without a home. Votes: 0

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'. Votes: 0

When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal. Votes: 0

Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be electrocuted, apparently. Bloody confusing, is what it is. Votes: 0

It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls! Votes: 0

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love. 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

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. Votes: 0

My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold. Votes: 0

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity. Votes: 0

Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game is effectively over. Votes: 0

Tribes have the potential to provide almost 15 percent of the country's electricity with wind power, and have 4.5 times the solar resources to power the entire U.S. Votes: 0

In the south of France the phones cut in and out, the electricity isn't particularly reliable. I think many people would get very irritated with that life. Votes: 0

When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping. Votes: 0

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity. Votes: 0

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light. Votes: 0

To me, there's never been a difference between electronic and acoustic. I've always had this idea that electricity is another element like wind or fire or water. Votes: 0

They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity. Votes: 0

A country that denies it, citizens, the opportunity to "civil liberties", better health care, schools, roads, electricity and water. Is a country on a brink of no return. Votes: 0

I live for sex. I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my being. I can see no better reason for being alive. Votes: 0

Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you would keep the current on. Votes: 0

I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems. Votes: 0

I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich. Votes: 0

This morning the electricity came on for a few minutes, and when it did, Jonny said, "Hey, it's a black-on." This is what passes for humor around here. Votes: 0

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition. Votes: 0

[Brad Furman] wants to try stuff, he's willing to try stuff. And he wants electricity on the camera. And that's what I want, I want electricity whenever I'm performing. Votes: 0

To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity. Votes: 0

There has been no electricity in Baghdad for a week and the people are angry. You would be angry too if you couldn't watch your brand new stolen TV. Votes: 0

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine. Votes: 0

The rotating armatures of every generator and motor in this age of electricity are steadily proclaiming the truth of the relativity theory to all who have ears to hear. Votes: 0

There are 1.3 billion people today who have no access to electricity. Many of them rely on kerosene lanterns for light, but kerosene is both expensive and hazardous to the health. Votes: 0

The aliens coming and wiping our electricity and having technical power over us... we don't know what's out there. It something that seems so fictional, but it's something that's possible. Votes: 0

There is something electrifying about individuals with adventuresome spirits. They see life through a different lens. They almost emit electricity because nothing about them is dull or uninteresting or unplugged. Votes: 0

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing. Votes: 0

Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines. Votes: 0

I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lightsgto out. Votes: 0

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry. Votes: 0

An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat. Votes: 0

We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity. Votes: 0

One action society needs to take is to use energy much more efficiently. Instead of incandescent light bulbs, you could switch to LEDs that consume a lot less electricity, for example. Votes: 0

Idealists , workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine , of aircraft, of industry, of trade, of the sciences, of electricity. Votes: 0

Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Votes: 0

It's pretty obvious that Western lifestyles which rely on gigantic amounts of electricity use up far more resources than a subsistence-based life. A little more poverty would be a good thing. Votes: 0

When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help. Votes: 0

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen. Votes: 0

Who better than Wal-Mart, after all, to make a kilowatt of electricity go twice as far, or a gallon of fuel move our trucks move three times the distance?" -Wal-Mart ad Votes: 0

Power is not just for TV sets and charging mobile phones. This electricity is critical to the industrial development of this area. If there is electricity, small scale industry will grow. Votes: 0

Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework. Votes: 0

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy. Votes: 0

Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers. Votes: 0

We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this. Votes: 0

He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally. Votes: 0

Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning. Votes: 0

One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Alberto bloke was not stupid. With will you can achieve things. Votes: 0

In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser's vision of constructing Aswan's High Dam as a 'national project' for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity. Votes: 0

Can we imagine the United States without electricity? No, that would be pretty hard. Likewise, we can't really imagine being without an open Internet. The cost would be so grave, so serious. Votes: 0

I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a massive stone fireplace, a grand piano, and tons of books. Votes: 0

If the electrician who comes to mend my fuse blows it instead, so I should stop having electricity? I should cut off my light? Socialism is my light, can you understand that? Votes: 0

We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal. Votes: 0

I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger. Votes: 0

Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre. Votes: 0

In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads. Votes: 0

The electricity is back on in Baghdad. That is a very climactic moment in any country's liberation, when the lights come back on and you get a good look at what you looted. Votes: 0

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity. Votes: 0

Even after so many decades of Independence there are 18,500 villages in India which do not have electricity. We affirm our commitment to provide electricity to all those villages that do not have electricity. Votes: 0

Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides Votes: 0

So when it comes to circadian rhythms, it's a clock that's basically programmed in our body. So if you think back to times when people lived on farms and we didn't have electricity. Votes: 0

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity. Votes: 0

Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element. Votes: 0

I was just 17 years old and had to get some new friends to actually sign up for me to get electricity and utilities because I wasn't even old enough to have things like that. Votes: 0

Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress. Votes: 0

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'. Votes: 0

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?" Votes: 0

The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever. Votes: 0

Twenty-six states have passed renewable portfolio standards, which simply says somewhere between 15% and 30% of their electricity will come from renewables by such-and-such a year. In Washington, D.C., they haven't done a damn thing. Votes: 0

I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week. Votes: 0

What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's usually not even figured into reports about gas cars' overall energy use. Votes: 0

It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions - 'electricity too cheap to meter' was the atomic promise of the 1950s. Votes: 0

I have a very limited knowledge of recording, but the miracle of being able to capture sounds on magnetic tape and the miracle of electricity, and these little magnetic particles, is amazing to me. Votes: 0

Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said, her voice quivering with anger, "but I will write to your mother. Votes: 0

With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything. Votes: 0

I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a fundamental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity theory collapses like a house of cards. Votes: 0

Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered. Votes: 0

It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space. Votes: 0

Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced wind turbines or more... replacing those fuels with electricity might require less than 400 GW. Votes: 0

I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle. Votes: 0

Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull? Votes: 0

The cottages are full of life. It's incredible to think they are filled with people who know nothing of computerised technology, nor even running water, sewage systems or electricity. And yet here they live. Surviving. Votes: 0

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion. Votes: 0

If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this. Votes: 0

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights. Votes: 0

If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity - it would be style... being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful. Votes: 0

The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue ... and that you need increased supply like ANWR-is two ANWRs worth of energy. Votes: 0