Electric Quotes - Page 2

• 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 the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

  Carl David Anderson

  Numbers, Track, Majority

  Carl David Anderson (1937). “The Production and Properties of Positrons ...”

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• Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

  Andres Segovia

  Guitar, Singers, Violin

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• On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

  Tommy Shaw

  Real, Keys, Guitar

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• I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.

  Mark Knopfler

  Play, Guitar, Bass

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• If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

  Lenny Bruce

  Jesus, Children, School

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• When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

  George Carlin

  Night, Light, Lamps

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

  Oliver Herford

  Ambition, Eggs, Fans

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• I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.

  Piper Perabo

  Years, Two, Acting

  Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.

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• I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

  Keith Jarrett

  Heart, Player, Ideas

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• This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

  Joan Armatrading

  Dvds, Guitar, Together

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• I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

  Leo Fender

  Bass, Wonder, If I Could

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• I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

  Ace Frehley

  Guitar, House, One Day

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• I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well.

  Patrick Rafter

  Tennis, Crowds, Proud

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

  Gerry Mulligan

  Saxophone, Mulligans, Organs

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• By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.

  Johannes Stark

  Ions, Giving, Atoms

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• I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

  Clarence Clemons

  Christmas, Saxophone, Wanted

  "5 Steps to Make Yourself Miserable for the Holidays" by Matthew B. James, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2014.

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• Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.

  Johannes Stark

  Running, Numbers, Lines

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  There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Reading, Learning

  "The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers". "Friars Club Bible of Jokes, Pokes, Roasts, and Toasts". Book by Nina Colman, p. 316, 2001.

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  I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Guitar, Wish, Cotton

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• I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

  Edith Sitwell

  Eels, Pool, Catfish

  Attributed to Edith Sitwell in Life Magazine, January 4, 1963.

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• Electricity is really just organized lightning.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire,
  As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.

  Samuel Rogers

  Summer, Fire, Clouds

  Samuel Rogers (1849). “Poems”

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• 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. The whole, theory and experiment, seems as if it had leaped, full grown and full armed, from the brain of the 'Newton of Electricity'. It is perfect in form, and unassailable in accuracy, and it is summed up in a formula from which all the phenomena may be deduced, and which must always remain the cardinal formula of electro-dynamics.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Law, Perfect

  "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism".

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• A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.

  Johannes Stark

  Moving, Rays, Owing

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• Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

  Johnny Vegas

  Priests, Sermons

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