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Electricity is really just organized lightning. -- George Carlin
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. -- Spike Milligan
Ampere was the Newton of Electricity. -- James C. Maxwell
Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day. -- Janet Frame
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else -- Ambrose Bierce
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. -- Dave Barry
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
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. -- Boz Scaggs
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. -- Stephen Leacock
Electricity comes from other planets. -- Lou Reed
Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes. -- Marshall McLuhan
Ampere was the Newton of Electricity. -- James C. Maxwell
Electricity is really just organized lightning -- George Carlin
Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal. -- Lamar S. Smith
Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive. -- Mason Cooley
Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized. -- Zeena Schreck
Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials. -- Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything! -- Tom Stoppard
Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything. -- Egon Friedell
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking -- Dave Barry
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. -- Katherine McIntyre
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. -- Ernest Moniz
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. -- Steven Magee
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. -- Jill Ciment
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. -- Tim Allen
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. -- Alfred Smee
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. -- Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
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. -- Erik Brynjolfsson
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 -- Stephen Leacock
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. -- Ernest Holmes
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. -- Frederick Lenz
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. -- Frederick Lenz
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. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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. -- Charles de Lint
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 -- Ambrose Bierce
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. -- Benjamin Franklin
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 -- Maya Angelou
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. -- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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. -- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity. -- Kenneth Lay
Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. -- Maya Angelou
If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? -- Bill Gates
To avoid a blackout, electricity generating companies must lower generation in line with low demand. -- Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money. -- Earl Warren
That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow. -- Steve King
We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy. -- Dominic Monaghan
Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy. -- Michael Burgess
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. -- Howard Schultz
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. -- Ray Charles
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. -- L. Frank Baum
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. -- Greg Walden
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. -- Tony Fadell
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
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. -- Shuji Nakamura
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. -- Bill Bryson
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. -- Newt Gingrich
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. -- Elvis Presley
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. -- Koichi Tanaka
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. -- Paul Gillmor
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. -- Dan Lipinski
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. -- Judy Biggert
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. -- James Buchan
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. -- Bill Gates
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. -- Greg Walden
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. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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. -- Pico Iyer
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. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
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. -- James Buchan
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. -- David Bowie
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. -- Jeff Bezos
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. -- Stacy Keach
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. -- Kim Barnouin
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. -- Bernard Goldberg
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. -- Cherie Lunghi
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. -- Ishmael Beah
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. -- Jane Campion
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People always switched on turn me off. -- Brian Spellman
Harmonics are the cancer of the electrical system. -- Steven Magee
Atomic power will make electricity too cheap to meter -- Glenn Seaborg
Connecting products to the Web will be the 21st century electrification. -- Matt Webb
God is the light bulb, to where faith is the light switch. -- Anthony Liccione
There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will. -- Fernán Caballero
Faraday has the Cage, Tesla has the Coil and Magee has the Sandwich! -- Steven Magee
We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles. -- Thomas A. Edison
I call supplementing with electrolytes and metals: The Electrical Chemistry of the Human -- Steven Magee
violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature. -- Sanober Khan
I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City. -- Colum McCann
Love is like electricity sometimes; it may shock you anytime, yet you cannot live without it. -- Munia Khan
Soon now, the faint tinkling of a broken filament will become another sound of another century. -- Jane Brox
I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? -- Arthur Conan Doyle
You should be aiming to illuminate your indoor daytime environment with natural outdoor light, not electrical lighting products. -- Steven Magee
Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. -- Gordon Parks
Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion. -- Criss Jami
Some Women have this thermogenic effect on you, even after they've left, you can still breathe her scent, feel her electricity & be stunned -- Josh Stern
It may be possible that Leukemia in children is linked to the location of the fuse board and the electrical meter on the home. -- Steven Magee
The night crackled Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends. -- Janet Fitch
Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the next generation. -- Steven Magee
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
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 -- John Geddes
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. -- Steven Magee
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. -- Travis J. Dahnke
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. -- Jarod Kintz
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.] -- Pieter van Musschenbroek
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
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. -- Steven Magee
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. -- Steven Magee
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. -- Steven Magee
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! -- Steven Magee
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. -- Nikola Tesla
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. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
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. -- Bram Stoker
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.] -- Joseph Priestley
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 -- Theodore H. White
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.} -- Michael Faraday
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? -- Ayn Rand
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. -- Jarod Kintz
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'. -- Steven Magee
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. -- Damon Knight

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