Electric Quotes

518 Electric quotes by 400 unique authors

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating… — Keith Jarrett
To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of… — Johannes Peter Muller
Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities… — Peter Singer
I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please… — John Hodgman
Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a… — Allan Kaprow
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message — Marshall McLuhan
I bought an electric-powered chain saw with a plug-in cord so if I run away fast enough, you can only chase me so far. — Laurie Notaro
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… — Carl David Anderson
Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around… — Lisa Loeb
Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees. — Katherine Dunn
If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan… — F. Huegel
The theory I propose may therefore be called a theory of the Electromagnetic Field because it has to do with the space in the neighbourhood… — James Clerk Maxwell
[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. — Henry David Thoreau
Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is… — Marshall McLuhan
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart.… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light… — Thomas A. Edison
Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and… — Will Rogers
Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond! — Unknown Author
Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the horse-drawn car and… — Walt Disney
Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father. — Eugene O'Neill
Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun;… — Norman Vincent Peale
Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity,… — Nicole Brossard
[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the… — Henry Adams

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