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Quotes About Electricity

Flabby, bald, lobotomized, he drifted in a sheepish calm, where no agonizing reappraisal jarred his concentration on the electric chair- hanging like an oasis on his air of lost connections...
~ Robert Lowell
It was a charm born of struggle, an electricity emanating from hurt, an energy emitting through a formidable intellect and a prettiness formed by her robust resolve to step into a person of true power, wisdom and love.
~ Robin S. Sharma
steady sixty. A mile a minute. Hypnotic. Power line poles flashed
~ Lee Child
The technology of the book is much more flexible than film, more user friendly. The reader can dip into the book at will, without electricity, and is always aware of where she is in the book, halfway through, a third of the way, mere pages from the end, her fingers helping to measure the excitement of coming to the conclusion.
~ Lewis Buzbee
Suddenly the Professor started as if he had been electrified. Why, I had nearly forgotten the most important part of the entertainment! The Other Professor is to recite a Tale of a Pig I mean a Pig-Tale, he corrected himself. It has Introductory Verses at the beginning, and at the end. It can't have Introductory Verses at the end, can it? said Sylvie. Wait till you hear it, said the Professor: then you will see. I'm not sure it hasn't some in the middle, as well.
~ Lewis Carroll
EFG 112-A. PATENT 4,125,662. WAREHAM ELECTRIC COMPANY, BOSTON. TOLERANCES 1–20 MG, .1–15 MT. " 'mG,' " Logan read aloud. "Do you suppose that's milligauss?" "I think so. And I think mT stands for microtesla.
~ Lincoln Child
Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.
~ Lobsang Rampa
the last electric titillation died on the lips, like a dying moth that quivers, quivers, ever more feebly, ever more faintly, and at last is quite still. But for Lenina the moth did not completely die. Even after the lights had gone up, while they were shuffling slowly along with the crowd towards the lifts, its ghost still fluttered against her lips, still traced fine shuddering roads of anxiety and pleasure across her skin.
~ Aldous Huxley
Electricidad menos industria pesada más control de la natalidad es igual a democracia y abundancia. Electricidad más industria pesada menos control de la natalidad es igual a miseria, totalitarismo y guerra.
~ Aldous Huxley
Lenin used to say that electricity plus socialism equals communism. Our equations are rather different. Electricity minus heavy industry plus birth control equals democracy and plenty. Electricity plus heavy industry minus birth control equals misery, totalitarianism and war.
~ Aldous Huxley
Del choque de las nubes resulta la electricidad del relámpago y del relámpago la luz.
~ Alejandro Dumas
Misfortune is needed to bring light to the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental facilities to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced - from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.
~ Alexander Dumas
A book on wind energy, Our Invisible Future, sat on a small pedestal, next to several titles on climate change. This book must be read by all those who use electricity, pronounced a handwritten placard below the book. Ulf raised an eyebrow. He used electricity, and was well disposed towards green energy, but did everyone have to read this?
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you will keep the current on.
~ Elsie Lincoln Benedict
He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
in 1916, only 16 percent of Americans lived in homes with electricity, but by 1927, that percentage had risen to 63.118
~ Jill Lepore
A man from the Electricity Board has been rabbiting on like Mr Darcy about the inferiority of our connections and says the whole place will have to be rewired.
~ Jilly Cooper
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.
~ Jimi Hendrix
As for the environment, that too, would object, backing up the pessimism of its people, which was what happened where I lived where the whole place always seemed to be in the dark. It was as if the electric lights were turned off, always turned off, even though dusk was over so they should have been turned on yet nobody was turning them on and nobody noticed either, they weren't on.
~ Anna Burns
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
~ Anonymous
The Every Day Calendar is 0% Internet connected, so no apps, WiFi, bluetooth or computer programs are needed to set it up. Just plug it into the wall and you're ready to go.
~ Simone Giertz
Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
~ Robert Byrne
Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.
~ William Kamkwamba
Erst wenn man einen Abschluss in Philosophie, einen in Soziologie und einen in Wirtschaft hat, merkt man, dass man eigentlich nur was von Elektrizität und vom Klempnern verstehen muss, um in der Welt rumzukommen.
~ Fernanda Eberstadt