Electric Quotes - Page 22

• Raising the congestion charge won't necessarily make a difference. Rather than increasing the amount you pay in congestion charge, we should be thinking about an ultra low emission zone. We should penalise those cars who are the biggest polluters and reward cars that don't, like electric cars.

  Sadiq Khan

  Thinking, Differences, Car

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• I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in effect, synthetic human evolution. Our basic problems with maintaining the electric grid argue against that fantasy.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Believe, Mind, Maintaining

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• We're still promoting stupid wasteful behavior in agribusiness - everything from ethanol production for cars to genetically modified crops. In commerce just about everything we do politically is in the service of WalMart and the systems tied to it. In transportation, we could, for instance, have compelled General Motors to produce railroad rolling stock as a condition of their bail-out, but we didn't do that. Instead, we're chasing the phantom of electric cars - and, believe me, we are going to be mortally disappointed how that works out.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Stupid, Believe, Work Out

  Source: www.terrain.org

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• The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.

  Miles Davis

  Machines, Pay, Bills

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• For anyone that has ever done a sex scene, it takes on the feeling of learning a ridiculous dance, like the electric slide. It's not a sexy experience.

  Lena Dunham

  Sexy, Feelings, Done

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Electric service providers in Missouri have warned that the EPA's so-called Clean Power Plan will raise energy costs for Missourians, reduce jobs, and hurt our state's economic competitiveness. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I've fought hard to ensure provisions that would defund this harmful power grab were included in the final appropriations bill. I also support legislation to block this harmful rule and protect workers and families from the damaging effects of the Obama Administration's executive overreach and costly energy regulations.

  Roy Blunt

  Hurt, Jobs, Block

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Stop all your eyes at this time
  Right now, I'm electric heart

  Onew

  Heart, Eye, Right Now

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• My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Family, Growing Up

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• Those running tights the young women wear now, so they look like spacewomen, raspberry red and electric green so tight they show every muscle right into the crack between the buttocks, what is the point of them? Display. Young animals need to display.

  John Updike

  Running, Animal, Cracks

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit at Rest”, p.213, Random House

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• I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

  Nathan Fillion

  Running, Home, Doors

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• There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.

  Dan Simmons

  Wall, Light, Law

  Dan Simmons (2014). “Song of Kali”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• I am preparing myself for death. When I go to sleep, I try to keep myself smiling. So that when I die, I have a smile on my lips. I want an electric cremation. I don't want any poems or fuss after that. And for heaven's sake, don't bring back my ashes. Flush them down the toilet if the crematorium refuses to keep them. If they tell you that I am dead, I want you to give a big laugh.

  Zohra Sehgal

  Sleep, Giving, Laughing

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• My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Years, Age

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Have you noticed how the Republicans and Democrats try to copy each other at their conventions. Like at the Democratic convention John Kerry's daughter told a story about how he once gave CPR to her hamster. At the Republican convention the Bush girls are going to tell a story about how when their hamster was bad, their dad built them a little electric chair.

  Jay Leno

  Girl, Daughter, Dad

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• Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown
  hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric
  messages, galvanizing my genes.

  Etheridge Knight

  Fall, Grandfather, Red

  Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”

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• When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.

  Horatio Nelson

  Simple, Electric Shock, Tears

  Horatio Nelson (2012). “The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters”, p.69, tredition

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• Suddenly I'm not half the girl
  I used to be.
  There's a shadow hanging over me . . .
  From me to you out of my electric devil.

  Anne Sexton

  Girl, Fear, Shadow

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.260, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Home, America, Exhibitions

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• The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mom, Dad, Character

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

  Donald Fagen

  Play, Guitar, Ugly

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• I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds.

  Ross Lynch

  Guitar, Sound, Want

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• If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

  Pete Seeger

  Cutting, Guitar, Evening

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• Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyte Saga' was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, our friends are raving about. I feel as outdated as if I wore a Fair Isle sweater, ate Pot Noodle and had a two-bar electric fire in the sitting room.

  Simon Hoggart

  Fire, Two, Sweaters

  "Simon Hoggart's week: TV guilt and swanupmanship at Vintners' dinner" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just because the electric car doesn't emit fumes.

  Henry Ford II

  Dark, Car, Age

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• I would like to throw an egg into an electric fan.

  Oliver Herford

  Funny, Humor, Eggs

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