45 Quotes on Electricity

• Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  Author: Earl Wilson

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

  Author: Earl Warren

• It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury.

  Author: Greg Walden

• I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.

  Author: Greg Walden

• 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.

  Author: Koichi Tanaka

• 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.

  Author: Sherry Stringfield

• At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

  Author: Johannes Stark

• Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

  Author: Lamar Smith

• We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before.

  Author: Jeffrey Skilling

• They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.

  Author: David Sedaris

• I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

  Author: Boz Scaggs

• We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

  Author: Paul Prudhomme

• A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

  Author: Elvis Presley

• I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.

  Author: Kerry Packer

• That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon.

  Author: John Newcombe

• If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.

  Author: Bebe Neuwirth

• 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.

  Author: Samuel Morse

• 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.

  Author: Spike Milligan

• The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever.

  Author: Scott McNealy

• For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.

  Author: John McGahern

• Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

  Author: James Maxwell

• And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.

  Author: Dan Lipinski

• 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.

  Author: Stephen Leacock

• Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework.

  Author: Kenneth Lay

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

  Author: Kenneth Lay

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

  Author: Steve King

• As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.

  Author: Stacy Keach

• We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.

  Author: Paul Gillmor

• Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.

  Author: Bill Gates

• People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

  Author: Bill Gates

• You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

  Author: Nomar Garciaparra

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

  Author: Janet Frame

• I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

  Author: W. Fields

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

  Author: Anton Chekhov

• 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.

  Author: Ray Charles

• Electricity is really just organized lightning.

  Author: George Carlin

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

  Author: Michael Burgess

• In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads.

  Author: Stewart Brand

• Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.

  Author: Felix Bloch

• When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.

  Author: Kathleen Blanco

• If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix.

  Author: Judy Biggert

• The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

  Author: Jeff Bezos

• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

  Author: L. Baum

• 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.

  Author: Dave Barry

• Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded.

  Author: Tim Allen

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