Volt Quotes

• We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.

  Ogden Nash

  Wind, Glee, Watches

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• People ask me if I believe in things: in God, in astrology, and I say, absolutely! I believe in everything! And I believe in its opposite. Like the positive and negative volts on a battery, you need both for power.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Believe, Opposites, Astrology

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• Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.

  Suzanne Collins

  Years, Nuts, Allies

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.232, Scholastic Inc.

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• I got a vibrator that needed two nine volt batteries. What am I - R2D2? I don't know what to do with that.

  Chelsea Handler

  Two, Nine, Batteries

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• I'd like to have James Brown as my singer. I already have the best drummer, Tommy Clufetos. I've jammed a bunch with John Entwistle, and it was like a musical orgy. That guy is a living, breathing, grunting rhythm. For horns, let's go with the Stax/Volt guys, and I'm going to have Steve Cropper on standby just in case I want a rhythm guitarist.

  Ted Nugent

  Breathing, Guy, Musical

  "Ted Nugent & Henry Rollins: American Flag/Black Flag". Elmore Magazine Interview, www.elmoremagazine.com. November 3, 2013.

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• I got a smoke alarm at home, but really it's more like a 9-volt-battery-slowly-drainer.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms.

  Catherine Webb

  Cutting, Mushrooms, Circles

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• O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they demonstrated the production of nuclei of barium, lanthanum, strontium, yttrium, and, more recently, of xenon and caesium. It can be shown by simple considerations that this type of nuclear reaction may be described in an essentially classical way like the fission of a liquid drop, and that the fission products must fly apart with kinetic energies of the order of hundred million electron-volts each.

  Lise Meitner

  Xenon, Science, Simple

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• I got out of the tub and had to squelch a scream when I saw my reflection in the vanity mirror. My hair looked like it had taken 2000 volts and been spray starched

  Janet Evanovich

  Taken, Reflection, Hair

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “One For The Money: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the men gave Butch a bunch of volts with a stun gun. The Rangeman didn’t move fast enough, and Butch grabbed the gun and threw it across the room. “Hunh,” Rangeman guy said. “Yeah,” I said. “Been there, done that.” “Are you sure he’s human?” “Maybe you could hook a chain to the FlexiCuffs on his ankles and drag him behind your car,” I said. “We tried that once, and Ranger didn’t like it,” the guy said. “You do something twice that Ranger doesn’t like, and you’re out of a job and damaged.

  Janet Evanovich

  Jobs, Moving, Gun

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• She (Annabeth) put her hand on my spine, and my skin tingled. I (Percy) moved her fingers to the one spot that grounded me to my mortal life. A thousand volts of electricity seemed to arc through my body.

  Rick Riordan

  Hands, Skins, Body

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• Sanchez looked at me and we locked eyes a second too long. There was nothing I could do about it. The signal went out. A moment of clear, silent hostility passed between us as hotly charged and unintentional as a thousand-volt arc through a squirrel.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Squirrels, Long

  Rick Riordan (2000). “The Last King of Texas”, Bantam

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• Gazzy: "What does that mean?" (points to metal plaque warning to stay off the third rail that said Stay off the third rail!) Fang: "It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn.

  James Patterson

  Running, Mean, Doe

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• When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage.

  Michio Kaku

  Years, Wire, Pounds

  "'Physics Of The Future': How We'll Live In 2100?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2011.

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