Electric Quotes - Page 23

• The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

  Henry Giroux

  Running, Culture, Electric Current

  "Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism". Book by Henry Giroux, www.alternet.org. 2011.

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• If your blood is formed from eating the foods I teach [fruits and green-leaf vegetables] your soul will shout for joy and triumph over all misery of life. For the first time you will feel a vibration of vitality through your body (like a slight electric current) that shakes you delightfully.

  Arnold Ehret

  Blood, Vegetables, Joy

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• Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed.

  W. Clement Stone

  Motivational, Electric Current, Enthusiasm

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• Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wind, Energy, Income

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• All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

  Chuck Berry

  Rocks, Guitar, Want

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• Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Coffee, Espresso, Excellent

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• The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.

  Norman Mailer

  Moon, Night, Vegas

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.256, Random House

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• "We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions"

  Walter Russell

  Expression, Opposites, Wave

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• Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November, which we wrap around ourselves in the prosperous warmth of wood stove, oil and electric blanket. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves, partly tuber, partly bear, in the dark and its cold - around us, outside us, safely away from us. We tuck ourselves up in the comfort of cold's opposite, warming ourslves by thought of the cold, lighting ourselves by darkness's idea.

  Donald Hall

  Dark, Oil, June

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• If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried. It's actually interesting.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Mean, Play, Interesting

  "Violinist Itzhak Perlman Gets Quizzed On Ron Perlman". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", www.npr.org. March 29, 2014.

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• If it works for the piece of music, I'm going to use it. I don't want to be limited any more than [Bob] Dylan wanted to be limited by not using an electric guitar.

  Linda Perhacs

  Guitar, Use, Pieces

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2014.

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• Prescriptive regulations, such as telling electric utilities what kinds of coal to burn or what kinds of scrubbers to install on their smokestacks, were not only intrusive, they were also grossly inefficient.

  Bob Frank

  Regulation, Coal, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.

  Bill Gates

  People, Car, Would Be

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.

  Bill Gates

  Horse, Dark, Race

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Quantum physics has found that there is no empty space in the human cell, but it is a teeming, electric-magnet ic field of possibility or potential

  Deepak Chopra

  Cells, Space, Fields

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• I sing the body electric,
  The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
  They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
  And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Army, Soul, Body

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their rated total generating capacity. Today, as a result of several decades of experience and an intense focus on performance ... nuclear plants in the United States operate at over 90 percent of capacity. That improvement in operating efficiently is so significant in its impact that it can almost be seen as a new source in electric power itself.

  Daniel Yergin

  Electric Power, Impact, Focus

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• Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, Electric Vehicles, Goal

  "Elon Musk Gives Tesla's Patents to Open Source Movement". bigthink.com.

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• I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I also wanted to play guitar. I mentioned to my parents that I wanted an electric guitar for Christmas. They got me one! I sat there all Christmas morning making a lot of loud horrible noise.

  Joan Jett

  Morning, Guitar, Play

  "Joan Jett Opens Up About Her Biggest Transformation Yet And Looks Back On What Could've Been". Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel, www.buzzfeed.com. September 10, 2013.

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• The most straightforward path would be if we could bring the cost of solar electric and wind down by another factor of say, three, and then have some miraculous storage solution, so that not only over the 24-hour day but over long periods of time where the wind doesn't blow, you have reliable energy. That's a path. But energy storage is hard. That's not a guaranteed path.

  Bill Gates

  Blow, Wind, Long

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Brain, Energy

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• What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the direction of the electric displacement being at the right angles to the magnetic disturbance, and both at right angles to the direction of the ray.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Light, Opposites

  James Clerk Maxwell (1995). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:”, p.195, CUP Archive

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• Imagine a kind of system where you have lightweight electric vehicles relatively small battery capacity, and then picking up charge wherever they park. You never have to worry about filling up your car, never go to the gas station, never plug it in, never do any of these things.

  William J. Mitchell

  Filling Up, Electric Vehicles, Worry

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Everybody thinks an automobile needs an engine. Well, an automobile doesn't necessarily need an engine. What we do is shift electric motors into the wheels of our automobiles and so we have a completely different kind of thing where we have four independent intelligent wheels rather than a traditional internal combustion engine and power train and so on.

  William J. Mitchell

  Independent, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on an acoustic guitar. You must develop it as a totally different thing.

  Rory Gallagher

  Hate, Guitar, Play

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