Electric Quotes

• There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

  John Keats

  Nature, Fire, Heroism

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.37

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• My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way

  Dan Fogelberg

  Dad, Guitar, Looks

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• The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Light, Water, Democracy

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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• The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Debate, Crime, Chairs

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

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• When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

  Keith Jarrett

  Two, Band, Separation

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• One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Inspirational, Media, Information

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.135, McClelland & Stewart

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• We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, Wire, Bills

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• My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Family, Uncles

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.35, Zondervan

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• The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Volcanoes, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.280, Harvard University Press

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• My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Audience, Extraordinary

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• To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Expression, Light, Electric Current

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• Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Encouraging, Perseverance

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.148, Lulu.com

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• In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

  Eberhard Weber

  Thinking, Play, Support

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• Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.143, University of Georgia Press

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• Heat energy of uniform temperature [is] the ultimate fate of all energy. The power of sunlight and coal, electric power, water power, winds and tides do the work of the world, and in the end all unite to hasten the merry molecular dance.

  Frederick Soddy

  Hard Work, Fate, Science

  Frederick Soddy (1912). “Matter and energy”

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• In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two poles of a Volta pile. On his table was a magnetized needle on its pivot, and he suddenly saw (by chance you will say, but chance only favours the mind which is prepared) the needle move and take up a position quite different from the one assigned to it by terrestrial magnetism. A wire carrying an electric current deviates a magnetized needle from its position. That, gentlemen, was the birth of the modern telegraph.

  Louis Pasteur

  Moving, Memorable, Science

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• I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to them all of the electric complexity. Each one fails at this, of course, but I keep trying - adoring each of them, loving the process, the ebb and flow of it - and each time, the failures fail a bit better.

  Alex Lemon

  Thinking, Giving, Trying

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• I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

  Clarence Clemons

  Christmas, Saxophone, Wanted

  "5 Steps to Make Yourself Miserable for the Holidays" by Matthew B. James, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2014.

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• Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Light, Disease, Publicity

  Other People's Money ch. 5 (1914) See RalphWaldo Emerson 42

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• I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

  Ace Frehley

  Guitar, House, One Day

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• I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

  Leo Fender

  Bass, Wonder, If I Could

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• I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.

  Piper Perabo

  Years, Two, Acting

  Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.

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• If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

  Lenny Bruce

  Jesus, Children, School

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• Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.

  Johannes Stark

  Running, Numbers, Lines

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• I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

  Ron Carter

  Music, Halloween, Responsibility

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