Electric Quotes

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light.

Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

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 to see for themselves.

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.

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

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.

Flash'd from his bed the electric tidings came, he is no better, he is much the same.

There are two great unknown forces today, electricity and woman, but men can reckon much better on electricity than they can on woman.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

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.

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.

I loathe the expression What makes him tick.

It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it.

It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage -- the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, Candle making industry threatened.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

If I apply a magnetic pulse on salt water - that's your brains by the way - it'll generate electric currents, and the electric current in the brain can erase a migraine headache.

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.

For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.

It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it.

This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?'

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean.

The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

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.

Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla.

And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.

I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.

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.

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it.

I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well.

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.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

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.

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

They were nothing like the French people I had imagined.

If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.

You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.

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.

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

I wonder if I could make an electric bass.