We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists (people who deny that usually follow some trade other than… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't… — Jill Ciment Copy Share Image
Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs and… — Alok Sharma Copy Share Image
Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to… — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists. — Sam Wyly Copy Share Image
When you are playing with someone who really has something to say, even though they may be otherwise quite different in style,… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
In the traditional dances, physical contact was permitted in a way that it wasn't in everyday life. The electricity of physical contact… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
“Utility electricity is a known hazardous biological toxin and the toxicity of it is increasing as it progresses into harmonic electronic power… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business. — Ken Auletta Copy Share Image
If the electrician who comes to mend my fuse blows it instead, so I should stop having electricity? I should cut off… — Arnold Wesker Copy Share Image
It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity… — Rex Tillerson Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In 1882 I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States. He said: 'Hang your… — Hiram Maxim Copy Share Image
