Quotes on Electricity

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

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

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Author: George Carlin

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

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

Author: Kenneth Lay

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

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

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

Author: James Maxwell

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

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

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

Author: Lamar Smith

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

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.

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