Electric Quotes

518 quotes by 410 authors

There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet. — Elon Musk
So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the… — Alistair Cooke
I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater… — Alistair Cooke
My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the… — Lewis Carroll
One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into your arms with electric delight… — Michael Josephson
Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye. — Howard G. Hendricks
Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same. — Lydia M. Child
In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House, the residence of the leaders… — Jimmy Carter
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act… — Barack Obama
The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life.… — Marshall McLuhan
The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us… — Walter Russell
The universe gives to those who ask without favor. The electric plug which connects you is desire. — Walter Russell
There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires.… — Walter Russell
The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric… — Charles Kingsley
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means… — James Clerk Maxwell
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science.… — James Clerk Maxwell
In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two… — Louis Pasteur
It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases… — Francis Galton
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of… — Arthur C. Clarke

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