Electricity Quotes

• Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Writing, Use

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• I believe that access to electricity and light can radically improve people‚ lives.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Believe, Light, People

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• A smile costs less than electricity, but gives much light .

  Abbe Pierre

  Light, Giving, Cost

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• If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

  Samuel Morse

  May, Reason Why, Made

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• Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Age, Modern

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity.

  Kenneth Lay

  Economy, Can Do

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• The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development

  Christopher Flavin

  Real, Lying, Long

  Christopher Flavin (1986). “Electricity for a developing world: new directions”, Worldwatch Inst

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• Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.

  Gregory Dickow

  Inspirational, Faith, Light

  Gregory Dickow (2009). “The Power to Change Today: Simple Secrets to the Satisfied Life”, p.21, Hachette UK

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  What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

  Ray Charles

  Light, Soul, Rooms

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• Mysterious affair, electricity.

  Samuel Beckett

  Science, Mysterious, Affair

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Ends and Odds”, p.81, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

  Ambrose Bierce

  Home, Energy, Causes

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.53, 谷月社

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• Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

  Dave Barry

  Drinking, Book, Eye

  "The Taming of the Screw". Book by Dave Barry, 1983.

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• I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.

  Nikola Tesla

  Sight, Years, Imagination

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• And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.

  Spike Milligan

  Light, Waiting, Boards

  Spike Milligan (2004). “The compulsive Spike Milligan”

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• It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Fall, 4th Of July

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings.

  Damian Marley

  Blessing, Water, Granted

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

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• A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

  Greg Walden

  Jobs, Loss, Average

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• Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  Earl Warren

  Money, Men, May

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• Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Newton

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• I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.

  Sherry Stringfield

  Three, Pay, Bills

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• I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Children, Engineering, Radio

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• Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Environmental, Energy, Needs

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• Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Science, Two, Differences

  Stephen Leacock (1910). “Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches”

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• That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

  Steve King

  Keys, Law, Constitution

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• Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Dream, Reality

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.38, Penguin

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