Quotes About Electricity

As we had no electricity we also had no "idiot box" and therefore felt no envy. Except

1883, Printemps achieved the distinction of being the first department store in Paris to be lit electrically. Zola,

Il y a bien des souvenirs, mais quelqu'un les a électrifiés et connectés à nos cils, dès qu'on y pense on a les yeux qui brûlent.

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.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

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

Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!

Sabrina leaned in and pressed her lips to Puck's. There was a little static shock that startled her and she stepped back with her hands on her mouth.

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

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 .}

High voltage wires can electrify or electrocute. It all depends on how they're handled. You can't play games with 10,000 volts. And you can't play games with the power of God. Serving Him is serious business. Our carefree attitudes must go. We must carry out His work in His way, or His fire will consume us instead of our offerings.

I listen to the line as it disconnects, to the last wave of electricity as it pulses from Maine to the Hoosier State, from her to me, and then wait for the thick silence that flows behind it.

The cost of buying and installing the latest Tesla Powerwall is more than $10,000. The cost of installing solar panels on top of that ranges from $10,000 to $30,000.4 Helen and I pay about $100 per month for electricity. It would thus take at least 200 months, or more than seventeen years, for us to recoup our investment.

Era epoca redescoperirii înÈ›elepciunii str?vechi a umanit??ii, epoca spiritelor conjurate de mediumuri groteÈ™ti... Toate acestea erau exuviile unei epoci ce trecea de la tehnologia aburilor la cea a electricit??ii, pentru ca oamenii s? nu uite c? tehnologia È™i magia nu sunt decât feÈ›ele aceleiaÈ™i medalii, c? în mintea lor primitiv-sofisticat? miracolul tehnologiei era mereu contrabalansat de tehnologia miracolului.

the nerve cells respond to electrical impulses much as an electron tube does.

When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes through them, there will be no light. That wire is you and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, to produce the light of the world, Jesus, in us. Or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.

It breaks the hills, cracking the riches wide, runs through electric wires; it comes, warning the night, running among these rigid hills, a single force to waken our eyes.

We are electrical. The power travels within us as it does in nature.

We send electric currents down orderly runs of circuits and switches, but the shape that electricity wants to take is of a living thing, a fern, a bare branch. The strike point in the center, the power seeking outward.

America is engaged in the world's most ambitious experiment to accommodate itself to the technological distractions made possible by the electric plug.

it has become almost impossible for us to imagine what life was like before electricity began to flow through the sockets in our walls.

Along Maine's Kennebec River alone, thirty-six companies operated fifty-three icehouses with a total capacity of a million tons. But over the next few decades, cheap electricity devastated the business, first by making the artificial production of ice more economical and then by spurring homeowners to replace their iceboxes with electric refrigerators. As Gavin Weightman writes in The Frozen-Water Trade, the "huge industry simply melted away.

In 1930, it hit 80 percent. Soon, it was over 90 percent. Only a handful of manufacturers, mainly those running big factories in remote locations, continued to produce their own current. Thanks to Samuel Insull, the age of the private power plant was over. The utility had triumphed.

We asked about the utilities, and Christine said proudly that the electricity was working, even though she hasn't paid the bills.