quotes about Electricity
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Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.
-- Barack Obama -
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.
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When our fingers touch a crackle of electricity passes between us.
-- Cathy CassidySource : Cathy Cassidy (2011). “Chocolate Box Girls: Marshmallow Skye: Marshmallow Skye”, p.177, Penguin UK
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Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.
-- Charles Proteus Steinmetz -
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We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.
-- Dominic MonaghanSource : "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.
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Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.
-- Egon Friedell -
Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?
-- Elizabeth Wein -
Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.
-- Frederick W. Smith -
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Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple
-- Gene Wilder -
Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
-- Gordon Parks -
I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.
-- Greg WaldenSource : 1995 In NPR broadcast, 24 Feb.
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Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
-- Gregory Dickow -
What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
-- Jack Dorsey -
Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.
-- James Clerk Maxwell -
Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.
-- Janet Frame -
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Because I'm in advertising, not electricity!
-- Jerry Della Femina -
One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists (people who deny that usually follow some trade other than science), so if some theoretical particle interaction would lead ultimately to the nonexistence of the universe, then you can save a lot of electricity by not trying to demonstrate it.
-- Joe HaldemanSource : Joe Haldeman (1998). “Forever Peace”, p.24, Penguin
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An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate.
-- Josephine Preston Peabody -
That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.
-- Kathryn Stockett -
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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.
-- Kenneth Lay -
They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity.
-- Kenneth Lay -
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
-- Laurie Anderson -
I could be a millionaire if I knew how to make stuff and wasn't afraid of electricity.
-- Linda Sunshine -
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The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
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!
-- Mao Zedong -
I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.
-- Matt LeBlanc -
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
-- Melvil DeweySource : Melvil Dewey (1888). “Libraries as Related to the Educational Work of the State”
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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.
-- Michael Faraday -
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.
-- Michael Faraday -
Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.
-- Mike PompeoSource : "Untapped U.S. option: Energy exports" by Rep. Mike Pompeo, www.politico.com. January 15, 2013.
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Sparks fly, it's like electricity...
-- Miranda CosgroveSource : Song: Kissin' U, Album: Sparks Fly, 2010
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Like electricity, the Light is everywhere, but one must know how to activate it. I have come for that.
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Without electricity, there can be no art.
-- Nam June PaikSource : "Nam June Paik retrospective, Liverpool" by Emma O'Kelly, December 20, 2010.
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We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.
-- Paul Prudhomme -
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.
-- Robert H. Jackson -
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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.
-- Samuel Morse -
I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
-- Thomas A. Edison -
Brunettes are full of electricity.
-- Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam -
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In the Green Zone in Iraq you have your radio, you have your food, you have your own electricity, your own toilets. Everything is a sealed American reality overlaid on top of an infrastructure that is crumbling.
-- Elliott CollaSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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The problem right now, which I've been pointing out very bluntly to American officials in Washington, is that the U.S. has no economic presence in Afghanistan. The Afghans can't point and say, "Oh, the Americans built that road. They built that telecommunications facility. They built that electricity powerhouse," because nothing has been built so far.
-- Ahmed RashidSource : Source: progressive.org
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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.
-- Alistair DarlingSource : "Alistair Darling: We were two hours from the cashpoints running dry", www.independent.co.uk. March 18, 2011.