Ancient Quote by Lois McMaster Bujold

It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it.

— Katharine Hepburn

“The metal frame groans, and something under the hood lets out a mechanical hiss. Smoke billows up from the front, the universal symbol for…

— Anna Banks

“All the electronic devices are powered by white smoke. When smoke goes out, device is dead.”

— Milan Nikolic

“There's a word for it," she told me, "in French, for when you have a lingering immersion of something having passed by. Sillage. I…

— Robyn Schneider

It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

— Nikola Tesla

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

— Henry Petroski

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

— Henry Petroski

The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was…

— Don DeLillo

It means a lot to a lot of people, 'Smoke On The Water.'

— Ian Gillan

Flame is very near to smoke.

— Plautus

“What business have I with this pipe? This thing that is meant for sereneness, to send up mild white vapors among mild white hairs,…

— Herman Melville

“Beeping smoke detectors means low batteries, not 'take them out and burn your kitchen down.' Fire Captain James Haskell failing badly at flirting over…

— Carina Alyce