Electricity Quotes - Page 9

• When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good.

  Bill McKibben

  Sun, Meter, Solar Panels

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.

  Alfred Smee

  Science, Men, Sea

  Alfred Smee (1843). “Elements of Electro-metallurgy”, p.300

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• People went to bed when the sun went down and they woke up when the sun came up. That's what our bodies are naturally programmed to do. However, with all the new stresses in life with electricity, with technology, we tend to override that system and we'll stay up later and we'll get up earlier or later, and we use alarm clocks, we use the light.

  Shelby Harris

  Stress, Technology, Light

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• So when it comes to circadian rhythms, it's a clock that's basically programmed in our body. So if you think back to times when people lived on farms and we didn't have electricity.

  Shelby Harris

  Thinking, People, Body

  Source: bigthink.com

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• [Brad Furman] wants to try stuff, he's willing to try stuff. And he wants electricity on the camera. And that's what I want, I want electricity whenever I'm performing.

  John Leguizamo

  Trying, Cameras, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• My mother was determined that I was going to leave the farm and do well in life. And she thought with the gift, I might be able to do that. So she took in washing. She got a washing machine in 1942 as soon as we got electricity and she took in washing. She washed the schoolteacher's clothes and anybody she could and sent me for singing lessons for $3 per lesson.

  Johnny Cash

  Mother, Clothes, Singing

  Source: wrvo.org

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• I think a lot people get caught up with the synthetic quality of electronic music, but me, I've always been more interested in all those more natural sounds, in organic electricity. That's something that I want to continue to work with.

  Patrick Wolf

  Thinking, People, Quality

  Interview with William Bowers, pitchfork.com. February 27, 2005.

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• To me, there's never been a difference between electronic and acoustic. I've always had this idea that electricity is another element like wind or fire or water.

  Patrick Wolf

  Fire, Wind, Ideas

  Interview with William Bowers, pitchfork.com. February 27, 2005.

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• Everyone's encouraged to put things in their own words, to discover new things. So there's definitely an element of dynamic improvisation, for sure, which I think gives those scenes some of their energy, some of their electricity.

  Steve Zissis

  Thinking, Giving, Energy

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Many years ago I also bought a house in Provence for about 70,000 francs. It had no electricity or running water, and no road leading to the house, but gradually we made improvements. It's my escape and I love it.

  Eric Idle

  Running, Years, Water

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• In Nepal, I realized a certain part of my spiritual search had come to an end. I wasn't ever going to live in a Himalayan cave (I like electricity and a soft bed way too much), and I sure wasn't going to find enlightenment so easily.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Spiritual, Enlightenment, Bed

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.

  Lorrie Moore

  Real, Made, Surrealism

  Lorrie Moore (2014). “Bark: Stories”, p.86, Vintage

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• We can go up or we can do down. I think generally the world is going on an upward swing. We're in a part of a cycle where people are discovering more. The communications are better. We're getting more into the subtle electricities that control the universe.

  George Harrison

  Communication, Thinking, Swings

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• We're full of electricity, and the walls and floor of a building contain carbon - the same makeup as a video tape - and I think we give off a huge amount of energy. Some people are able to see that and pick that up. I think almost every person I've met in my life has had some sort of experience that they can't explain, and those fascinate me.

  Peter James

  Wall, Makeup, Thinking

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• There are 1.3 billion people today who have no access to electricity. Many of them rely on kerosene lanterns for light, but kerosene is both expensive and hazardous to the health.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Light, People, Today

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• Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Moving, Technology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.419, Harvard University Press

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• It's rare when you're actually making a movie and it feels like you're watching a movie in the theater. You feel like a surfer in a wave, catching the wave, going for it every time, there's electricity in the room, it doesn't feel like acting, you ride the wave.

  Jon Lovitz

  Acting, Rooms, Going For It

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• Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Play, Ideas

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• Mêmewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she and with me. It reminds me how being a reader can be exciting.

  Nicole Brossard

  Book, Eye, Language

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• Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what its about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

  Taylor Kitsch

  Years, Understanding, Three

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• All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.

  Casey Affleck

  Mean, Hunting, Peaceful

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• An event horizon, or the point of no return, is only a byproduct of the bending of space. However, electricity and magnetism, by themselves, have no event horizon. It gets complicated, however, if a black hole has charge, and then this new solution does have an event horizon.

  Michio Kaku

  Space, Black, Events

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• I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.

  Patti Smith

  School, Horny, Body

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answering machines, much less computers. I was telling my children this the other day, and the little one said, "Did you have electricity, Mom?" and I was like okay, enough, kid.

  Jennifer Egan

  Mom, Teenage, Children

  "Jennifer Egan’s Novel Approach". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. May 27, 2010.

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• Daddy pays for the water, daddy pays for the gas, daddy pays for the electricity, and if daddy didn't pay for the electricity, he'd pay for the candle on your nightstand, so you can study for the big test tomorrow.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Daddy

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