I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
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Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Someone should have a record that doesn't have any singing. It's my favorite Miles Davis record. I love hanging out in the… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks an automobile needs an engine. Well, an automobile doesn't necessarily need an engine. What we do is shift electric motors… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capital punishment, that thing scares me, it really does. I was talking to my friend about the electric chair, and he starts… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was the early-nineties,… — Shalom Harlow Copy Share Image
When I came to the States, I still wanted to be an electric guitar player. But moved to Santa Fe in '86.… — Ottmar Liebert Copy Share Image
In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
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I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Well, maybe it was just that I wasn't going to like anybody because I had to work and I had to explain… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'm a Gemini, so there's two people in me. Straight up. There's the nerd who is totally zoned out in the studio,… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of… — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
My dreams are always quite attainable, I wouldn't like to spend a lot of money on a car. I've got a mental… — Russell Kane Copy Share Image
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Magnetic current is the same as electric current. Current is [actually] the wrong expression. Really it is not one current, they are… — Edward Leedskalnin Copy Share Image
There are some superficial things that connect me to the stream. There's instrumentation, there's timbre, use of electronics, the way that samples… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
Today is such a strange day. The news is out about the Russians and mini-Donald. This seems like a turning point, but… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The future of the German automobile industry is very much at stake. Will we help shape the upheaval that goes along with… — Joschka Fischer Copy Share Image
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
This whole electric universe is a complex maze of similar tensions. Every particle of matter in the universe is separated from its… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
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