Electric Quotes

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter. (Woody Allen)
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. View quote
Edith Sitwell
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere. View quote
Alexandra Paul
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. View quote
Napoleon Hill
There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. View quote
Will Rogers
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. View quote
Lenny Bruce
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature. View quote
John von Neumann
I was, however, more interested in steam engines than in electric ones. In other words, I was more romantic than technical. View quote
Tomas Tranströmer
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. (Erma Bombeck)
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. View quote
Oliver Herford
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. View quote
Lawrence Wright
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things. View quote
Dolly Parton
No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousandshares ofGeneral Motors or General Electric. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues-the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again. View quote
Keith Richards
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity. (Marshall McLuhan)
The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Youth instinctively understand the present environment – the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The user of the electric light -- or a hammer, or a language, or a book -- is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message. View quote
Marshall McLuhan