Electricity Quotes - Page 16

• Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

  Gordon Parks

  Life, Acting, Enthusiasm

  97 Copy quote

• If we're going to solve the problems in North Korea, the first thing we're going to have to do is start helping them get basic amenities like electricity, televisions, and DVD players over there. Otherwise, how can they watch 'Garden State'?

  Zach Braff

  Player, Garden, Dvds

  4 Copy quote

• Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.

  John Frusciante

  Differences, Important, Energy

  15 Copy quote

• Angels speak. They appear and reappear. They feel with apt sense of emotion. While Angels may become visible by choice, our eyes are not conducted to see them ordinarily any more than we can see the dimensions of a nuclear field, the structure of atoms, or the electricity that flows through copper wiring.

  Billy Graham

  Eye, Angel, Choices

  7 Copy quote

• Make Earth Day Every Day.”  While we might not always live up to this ideal, I try to keep this quote from Denis Hayes, founder of the Earth Day Network and president of Seattle’s Bullitt Foundation, in mind when I need a little extra motivation to be a better environmentalist: “Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Motivation, Beer

  9 Copy quote

• From the point of view of logic, my report on 'Exclusion principle and quantum mechanics' has no conclusion. I believe that it will only be possible to write the conclusion if a theory will be established which will determine the value of the fine structure constant and will thus explain the atomistic structure of electricity, which is such an essential quality of all atomic sources of electric fields actually occurring in nature.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Believe, Writing, Views

  "Writings on Physics and Philosophy".

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not ask motorists to pay more, why not ask electricity consumers to pay more and then at the end of the year you can take your invoices to the tax office and get a rebate of the carbon tax you've paid

  Tony Abbott

  Simple, Thinking, Years

  53 Copy quote

• Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Medicine, Political

  "Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you are playing with someone who really has something to say, even though they may be otherwise quite different in style, there’s one thing that remains constant. And that is the tension of the experience, that electricity, that kind of feeling that is a lift sort of feeling. No matter where it happens, you know when that feeling comes upon you, and it makes you feel happy.

  John Coltrane

  Feelings, Style, Different

  115 Copy quote

• When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have electricity, and on top of that you live under one of the most repressive regimes right now... Well, put all that together, and it's a ticking bomb. It's not of a question of threat; it is question of looking around at the present environment and making a rational prognosis.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Water, Together, Bombs

  7 Copy quote

• We look at the Web as being our basic power plant, kind of like electricity, so the Web and communicating in this fashion is second nature to us now. It's not like we go brochure, television, mail. It's Web, and then everything else. It's social media first, and everything else.

  Ted Leonsis

  Fashion, Media, Looks

  7 Copy quote

• Within a few decades...the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine.

  Christopher Flavin

  Sunshine, Wind, Energy

  4 Copy quote

• When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution...Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

  Paul Virilio

  Technology, Negativity, Progress

  Paul Virilio, Philippe Petit, Sylvère Lotringer (1999). “Politics of the Very Worst”, Semiotext

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• Real film is light; digital is electricity.

  Aki Kaurismaki

  Real, Light, Digital

  9 Copy quote

• Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source of carbon-free electricity in the country.

  Ernest Moniz

  Country, United States, Doe

  12 Copy quote

• In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without having first secured control of our use of ourselves is a perilous affair. Without the control of our use of ourselves, our use of other things is blind; it may lead to anything.

  John Dewey

  Light, Energy, Use

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Ratner (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany”, p.318, SIU Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Heart, Sky, Effort

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Dec 31, 2013

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist; and for this purpose he requires that an exact measurement may be taken in an equally invariable manner anywhere in the world... Also, the history of electricity yields a well-known truth-that the physicist shirking measurement only plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and the construction of his toys.

  Franz Karl Achard

  Determination, Nature, Children

  5 Copy quote

• We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this.

  Ronen Sen

  People, Energy, Excess

  4 Copy quote

• The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find the bathroom, feeling your way along in the dark. I can't hardly tell you what I do because I really don't know.

  Carolyn Chute

  Writing, Dark, Night

  5 Copy quote

• He was tall, one of the tallest men she had ever seen. Dressed in jeans, boots and a cotton shirt. Thick black hair grew rakishly long, falling over the collar of his shirt. Intense brown eyes, almost the color of amber, surveyed the diner slowly before coming back to her. Electricity sizzled in the air then, as though invisible currents connected them, forcing her to recognize him on a primitive level. Not that she wouldn’t take notice anyway. He was power, strength, and so incredibly male that her breath caught at the sight of him.

  Lora Leigh

  Fall, Eye, Men

  Lora Leigh (2018). “Elizabeth's Wolf”, p.34, Penguin

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.

  Janice Galloway

  Hurt, Eye, Dark

  Janice Galloway (1989). “The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set foot in a rain forest now, am I? I won't even be able to watch old DVD's about them without electricity. What does the future hold? It's like going back to the middle ages. Nobody knowing what was going on beyond their front doorstep. All I'll ever know is this. This little bit of London.

  Charlie Higson

  Rain, Knowing, Dvds

  5 Copy quote

• The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender as apple blossom. But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver. Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you cracking to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, into each other's hands.

  Tana French

  Girl, Dream, Song

  4 Copy quote

• The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.

  William Gibson

  Distance, Book, Cutting

  8 Copy quote