Electric Quotes - Page 27

• We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.

  Ian MacKaye

  Mean, Guitar Music, Play

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• At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution.

  Chris Burden

  Two, Venice, Wire

  Chris Burden, Alberta College of Art. Gallery (1976). “Chris Burden, February 18, 1976”

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• Actually, I comb my hair quite often. Of course, I use an electric toothbrush.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Hair, Use

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• One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the same thing as the current of conduction, but that the time-variation of the electric displacement must [also] be taken into account.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Taken, Science, Doctrine

  James Clerk Maxwell (1954). “A treatise on electricity and magnetism”, Dover Pubns

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• Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Rain, Information, Invisible

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them.

  Philip K. Dick

  Heart, White, Dying

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.

  Aubrey McClendon

  Wise, Running, Believe

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• I'm trying to paint an underwater ocean scene. It's just not working. My queen angelfish is supposed to have these bright yellow eyes and electric-blue stripes along the edge of her fin. Instead, it looks like I'm trying to paint a fried egg with some blue bacon. Maybe I can pass it off as postmodern.

  Susane Colasanti

  Queens, Ocean, Eye

  Susane Colasanti (2010). “Something Like Fate”, p.54, Penguin

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• Just as, when we touch a live wire, the electric force infuses itself into our body, when we deeply meditate on God the power of the whole universe seeks entry into our personality.

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Personality, Wire, Body

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• It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.

  Richard Hammond

  Sports, Jobs, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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