It's so hot my electric fan is sittin

I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric…

— P. G. Wodehouse

“Do not hesitate to ask for an electric fan (“diànshàn,” pronounced “dee-en shahn”).”

— Larry Herzberg

I would like to throw an egg into an electric fan.

— Oliver Herford

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

— Oliver Herford

A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move,…

— Alexander Calder

Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.

— Patti Smith

So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot…

— Philip K. Dick

With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the…

— Marshall McLuhan

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

— Elon Musk

I probably own 100 guitars and all of them are electric.

— Pat Smear

I direct with energy. I believe in energy. I think energy is an electric thing in actors. I try to inspire, encourage, and make…

— Matthew Lillard

Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on an acoustic…

— Rory Gallagher

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord…

— Thomas A. Edison

It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the…

— Elmore Leonard