Electricity Quotes

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

  Olafur Eliasson

  Believe, Light, People

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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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• We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Rich, Candle

  Thomas A. Edison's statement to a reporter during the first public demonstration of his incandescent (December 31, 1879), as quoted in Chris J. Magoc "Chronology of Americans and the Environment" (p. 46), 2011.

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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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• 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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• The good things in life are free, except for health care, and electricity.

  Dov Davidoff

  Things In Life, Care, Good Things

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

  Abbe Pierre

  Light, Giving, Cost

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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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• There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Nuclear, Driving

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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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• Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

  William Faulkner

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

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

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• Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

  Janet Frame

  Wind, Wire, Gray Days

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Needs, Definitions

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• People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Money, Business

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

  Kenneth Lay

  Economy, Can Do

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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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• 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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• If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.

  Nikola Tesla

  Hate, Light, World

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• Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Science, Vegetarianism

  "The wonder of Chekhov" by James Lasdun, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

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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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