Electric Quotes - Page 4

• Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won't operate at its peak.

  Carol Browner

  Air, Energy, Able

  "Government Wants to Control Your Thermostat". "The Glenn Beck Show", www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2009.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• America is addicted to oil...We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric cars and in pollution-free cars that run on hydrogen. We will also fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switch grass.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Cutting, America

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• As we curve around into the loop of the City Circle, I can see that a couple of other stylists have tried to steal Cinna and Portia's idea of illuminating their tributes. The electric-light-studded outfits from District 3, where they make electronics, at least make sense. But what are the livestock keepers from Distric 10, who are dressed as cows, doing with flaming belts? Broiling themselves? Pathetic.

  Suzanne Collins

  Couple, Curves, Light

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.213, Scholastic Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases in late years, the discoveries of photography, of electric telegraphy, and of the planet Neptune through theoretical calculations, have all their rival claimants. It would seem, that discoveries are usually made when the time is ripe for them - that is to say, when the ideas from which they naturally flow are fermenting in the minds of many men.

  Francis Galton

  Photography, Science, Men

  "Hereditary Genius". Book by Francis Galton, 1869.

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [...H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack of styling

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Car, Energy

  4 Copy quote

• My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.

  Sam Palladio

  Cousin, Guitar, My Birthday

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana were "candles in the wind," and Anna Nicole Smith was a bonfire in a hailstorm, and Lindsay Lohan is an electric toaster thrown intentionally into a Jacuzzi, then Paris Hilton s a strobe light in an epilepsy ward.

  Cintra Wilson

  Princess, Light, Wind

  16 Copy quote

• [S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years.

  Francis William Aston

  Science, Light, Air

  10 Copy quote

• What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Justice, Gentleman, Dying

  7 Copy quote

• I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

  Phillip Phillips

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  4 Copy quote

• I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

  Zac Efron

  Scooters, Sixth Grade, Grades

  "Getting to Know: Zac Efron (interview from December 2005!)". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. April 14, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.

  Michael Pare

  Wind, Political, Energy

  6 Copy quote

• Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.

  Helen Caldicott

  Baby, Light, Turns

  19 Copy quote

• If there is no deep yearning for a life that is well pleasing to Him, if there is no
  stimulating desire to know Him and His Word, church membership is just like
  a young man falling in love with a furnished apartment and marrying an electric
  stove, a refrigerator, a vacuum cleaner, a garbage disposal, and a wet mop!
  That is just about all it amounts to. Let's stop playing church today and start
  loving Christ and living for Him!

  J. Vernon McGee

  Christian, Falling In Love, Men

  J. Vernon McGee (1984). “Genesis through Revelation: 5 Volumes Genesis - Revelation”, p.4956, Thomas Nelson Inc

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Cat, Exercise, Men

  Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Emil Marriot (1989). “Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war time, mobilized for battle. Yes, we are strong and capable people, we can work without stopping, faster and faster, electric lights making artificial day so the whole machine can labor without ceasing. But remember: No living thing lives like this. There are greater rhythms, seasons and hormonal cycles and sunsets and moonrises and great movements of seas and stars. We are part of the creation story, subject to all its laws and rhythms.

  Wayne Muller

  Strong, Stars, War

  19 Copy quote

• And a lot of the technique and the little T-Bone phrases that define his style, Chuck Berry, when he rearranged the beat, they became rock 'n roll guitar licks. So in essence, T-Bone was not only the first electric blues guitar player, but he was the first electric rock 'n roll guitar player, really.

  Duke Robillard

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

  4 Copy quote

• There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires. He be a thin wire which gathers little energy and carries a weak current, or he may be a heavy one. That is true of all energy borrowed from the universe by all of us. It is there in unlimited quantities, but the gauge of the kind of wire each of us is set by ourselves.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Secret, Desire

  75 Copy quote

• She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.

  Red Skelton

  Funny, Humor, Bread

  14 Copy quote

• In order to give these customers what they want within an appropriate timescale, we are committed to developing a broad range of technologies-including plug-in hybrid, electric vehicle and FCV, corresponding to the simultaneous diversification of energy sources.

  Yoshikazu Tanaka

  Technology, Order, Electric Vehicles

  5 Copy quote

• Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Electric Power, Oil

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.

  Nikola Tesla

  Electric Power, Oil, Needs

  105 Copy quote

• But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

  Ernest Gaines

  Justice, Gentleman, Dying

  4 Copy quote

• I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days. I even touch your nose with mine to recapture the electric current that used to flush through my blood whenever I did so.

  Nelson Mandela

  Morning, Dust, Blood

  Nelson Mandela, Robin Malan (1997). “The Essential Nelson Mandela”, David Philip

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles.

  Elon Musk

  Mean, Technology, Electric Vehicles

  "Exclusive Q & A with Elon Musk on the Tesla Roadster and the future of EVs". Interview with Sebastian Blanco, www.autoblog.com. July 26, 2006.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source