Electricity Quotes - Page 20

• Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

  Rebecca Ferguson

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on sueing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.

  Meat Loaf

  War, Suing, Lost Everything

  "Portrait of the artist: Meat Loaf, singer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2010.

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• There's something about the awareness of the limits that makes you tune in more to your surroundings and I've experienced a lot of pleasure or even joy in working with those alternatives and also it's made me so much more aware of just how much work we can make those sources of supply do for us, whether it's electricity or fossil fuels.

  John Lindsay

  Joy, Tunes, Alternatives

  Source: williamlittlesociology.wordpress.com

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• I don't usually see what I've done. I don't often watch the film or watch the show. It's really about that experience on-set and within the scene. Because later, when the film comes out or the show comes out it's the editor's realm or the director's realm. But that moment on set, that's that electricity between me and another actor, and that's really what excites me.

  Jennifer Beals

  Editors, Directors, Watches

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials for one successful one. In the realm of electricity or of mechanics there is no objection to this. But when such rejected failures involve a torture of animals, sometimes fearful in its character, there is a distinct objection to it.

  Henry Jacob Bigelow

  Failure, Character, Successful

  "Surgical Anaesthesia: Addresses and Other Papers". Pp. 369-370. Book by Henry Jacob Bigelow, 1894.

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• I've never seen a performer create electricity with an audience like James Brown. He's got everybody in his hands and whatever he wants to do with them, he does it. It's amazing. I've always thought he was underrated.

  Michael Jackson

  Hands, Doe, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I, who had been in favour of nuclear energy for generating electricity ... I suddenly realised that anybody who has a nuclear reactor can extract the plutonium from the reactor and make nuclear weapons, so that a country which has a nuclear reactor can, at any moment that it wants to, become a nuclear weapons power. And I, right from the beginning, have been terribly worried by the existence of nuclear weapons and very much against their use.

  Mark Oliphant

  Country, Weapons, Plutonium

  "Portraits in Science". P. 31. Book by Ann Moyal, 1994.

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• When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Light, Who I Am, Names

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

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• My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up, she would fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson's or Everybody's, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but dangerous leakage. nothing could ever clear this up for her.

  James Thurber

  Wall, Grandmother, Years

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• Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.

  Alan Lightman

  Sadness, Law, Brain

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.20, Vintage

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• I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption.' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food.

  Nicholas Stern

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Go green, go vegan" by Chris Goodall, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.

  Hugo Chavez

  Rights, People, Water

  "Venezuela’s Chavez Closes World Social Forum with Call to Transcend Capitalism". Hugo Chavez's closing speech at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, venezuelanalysis.com. January 31, 2005.

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• The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.

  Diane Ackerman

  Dream, Children, Blood

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.151, Vintage

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• The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary portions, which behave like atoms of electricity.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Science, Law, Negative

  Hermann von Helmholtz (1971). “Selected writings of Hermann von Helmholtz”, Wesleyan Univ Pr

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• Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?

  Dennis Miller

  Hair, Doe, Cost

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• As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend upon a separate agency to ignite them to action, and both bring helpful or harmful results according to the wisdom or ignorance with which they are directed.

  Roger McDonald

  Ignorance, Agency, Mind

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• For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity; for electricity, you need some trained workers; for trained workers, you need some schools; for schools you need some money; for money, you need some industry.

  Evan Davis

  Country, School, Needs

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• You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there's a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there.

  Howard Schultz

  Retail, Entertainment, Excitement

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• It was very challenging in terms of making sure that everyone is distinct. Also, we wanted to have some Asian influences as well, so that it really is a mashup. We want evidence of our presence in this world, so you'll see there's an interest in technology, that there are not complex electronics. There's electricity in this world, but computers, circuits don't work.

  Miles Millar

  Technology, Challenges, Asian

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

  Barack Obama

  Caps, Rate, Trade

  "Radio Ads Still Relevant In Presidential Campaigns". "All Things Considered" with Brian Naylor, www.npr.org. October 23, 2012.

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• Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.

  Quincy Jones

  Summer, Father, Grandmother

  "Grammy Legend Award". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.

  Ross McKitrick

  Earth, Hours, Social

  "Earth Hour: A Dissent". wattsupwiththat.com. March 17, 2011.

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• I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Sleep, Cities, Elephants

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• Astrologers are influenced by theosophy, so they say, "That is very simple, it is just vibration!" ... But what is vibration? They say it is light energy, perhaps electricity, they are not quite informed. At all events the vibrations that could influence us have never been seen, so it remains just a word.

  Carl Jung

  Simple, Light, Astrology

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• In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where there’s some kind of relationship between the writer and the reader - even though it’s mediated by a kind of text - there’s an electricity about it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Mean, Alive

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