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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. -- Charles Dickens
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. -- Oliver Herford
My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. -- Napoleon Hill
Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer? -- Andres Segovia
Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. -- Al Jardine
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
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. -- Will Rogers
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. -- George Carlin
The Music was like Electric Sugar -- Tom Waits
Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation. -- Carlos Ghosn
Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great. -- David J. C. MacKay
Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere. -- Alexandra Paul
High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse. -- Douglas Adams
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars. -- Vinod Khosla
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars." -- Vinod Khosla
If there's anything Breaking 2: Electric Boogaloo has taught me, it's that breakdancing is the key to financial solvency. -- Richard M. Weiner
Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement. -- Carlos Ghosn
More than 30 of America's 100 nuclear power reactors have the same brand of General Electric reactors or containment system used in Fukushima. -- Bill Dedman
I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax. -- Michael Moore
Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force. -- Arthur Eddington
Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it. -- Dan Flavin
I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else. -- Kurt Vonnegut
In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone. -- Tom Morello
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. -- Dean Devlin
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 -- Michael Moore
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. -- Marshall McLuhan
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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. -- Nate Ruess
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. -- Glenn Beck
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. -- Nikola Tesla
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. -- Bernie Sanders
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. -- Gary Numan
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. -- Norman Lear
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. -- Francesca Lia Block
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. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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. -- Adi Godrej
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. -- Robert S. Strauss
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. -- Pete Seeger
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. -- Noam Chomsky
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. -- Will Rogers
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. -- Richard Dawkins
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. -- Jeffrey R. Immelt
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. -- Michael Parenti
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. -- Douglas Adams
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. -- Peter Barris
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. -- Carlos Ghosn
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. -- Douglas Adams
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. -- The Harvard Lampoon
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. -- Richard Brautigan
I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead. -- Clarence Clemons
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. -- J. Edgar Hoover
I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting. -- Piper Perabo
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it -- Gerry Mulligan
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. -- Erma Bombeck
My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences -- Lorna Luft
The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries. -- Elon Musk
For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement. -- Mikhail Saakashvili
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair. -- Sylvester Stallone
At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist. -- George Duke
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. -- Lenny Bruce
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. -- Dave Barry
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. -- Ted Nugent
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. -- Johannes Stark
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. -- Marshall McLuhan
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. -- Junior Johnson
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. -- Elon Musk
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. -- Sylvia Plath
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. -- Johannes Stark
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. -- Juliana Hatfield
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. -- Nikola Tesla
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. -- Susan Orlean
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. -- Bill Gates
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. -- Quincy Jones
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. -- Larry Page
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. -- John Keats
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. -- Eugene Chadbourne
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. -- Diplo
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. -- Steven Wright
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. -- Hugo Chavez
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. -- Aaron Patzer
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. -- Maureen Dowd
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. -- Richard Hammond
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. -- Jeff Bridges
I drive an electric car. -- David Duchovny
I sing the body electric. -- Walt Whitman
I really prefer electric music. -- Syd Barrett
Your electric bills will go down. -- Donald Trump
Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond! -- Sark
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. -- Lydia M. Child
I wonder if I could make an electric bass. -- Leo Fender
I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me. -- Zac Efron
Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric! -- Johnny Vegas
The roaring street is hung for miles With fierce electric fire. -- William Vaughn Moody
The family never going anorexic I pay mom mortgage and electric. -- Big Sean
Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast. -- Mason Cooley
I would like to throw an egg into an electric fan. -- Oliver Herford
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. -- Edith Sitwell
All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar... -- Chuck Berry
Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence. -- Ben Aaronovitch
The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current. -- Warren Hern
Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table. -- Dave Barry
Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire. -- Samuel Rogers
Stop all your eyes at this time Right now, I'm electric heart -- Onew
Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection. -- Dan Fogelberg
Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity. -- John Updike
If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric. -- Kat Dennings
Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity. -- Marshall McLuhan
New York feels vibrant It feels electric to walk the streets at night. -- Theophilus London
Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution. -- Elon Musk
I don't believe in the electric cars, but I strongly believe in hybrids. -- Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message -- Marshall McLuhan
New York feels vibrant... It feels electric to walk the streets at night. -- Theophilus London
At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential. -- Marshall McLuhan
Going to the electric chair will be the supreme thrill of my life. -- Albert Fish
I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis. -- Sammy Hagar
You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid. -- Shai Agassi
Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain. -- Hans Christian von Baeyer
A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet. -- Elon Musk

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