Electricity Quotes - Page 21

• Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards

  Bram Stoker

  Men, Long, Done

  Bram Stoker (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)”, p.588, Delphi Classics

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• We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.

  Alistair Darling

  Doors, World, Stage

  "Alistair Darling: We were two hours from the cashpoints running dry", www.independent.co.uk. March 18, 2011.

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• It was very challenging in terms of making sure that everyone is distinct. Also, we wanted to have some Asian influences as well, so that it really is a mashup. We want evidence of our presence in this world, so you'll see there's an interest in technology, that there are not complex electronics. There's electricity in this world, but computers, circuits don't work.

  Miles Millar

  Technology, Challenges, Asian

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I was just 17 years old and had to get some new friends to actually sign up for me to get electricity and utilities because I wasn't even old enough to have things like that.

  Blake Shelton

  Years, New Friends, Enough

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• I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.

  Tony Fadell

  Water, House, Design

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• I believe that God is like a powerhouse, like where you keep electricity, like a power station. And that he's a supreme power, and that he's neither good not bad, left, right, black or white. He just is. And we tap that source of power and make of it what we will. Just as electricity can kill people in a chair, or you can light a room with it. I think God is.

  John Lennon

  Believe, Thinking, White

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• Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.

  Quincy Jones

  Summer, Father, Grandmother

  "Grammy Legend Award". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.

  Ross McKitrick

  Earth, Hours, Social

  "Earth Hour: A Dissent". wattsupwiththat.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Astrologers are influenced by theosophy, so they say, "That is very simple, it is just vibration!" ... But what is vibration? They say it is light energy, perhaps electricity, they are not quite informed. At all events the vibrations that could influence us have never been seen, so it remains just a word.

  Carl Jung

  Simple, Light, Astrology

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