Electricity Quotes - page 8

Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop. (Lorrie Moore)
I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are strongly anti-technology are probably voicing that view on a Web site somewhere. Third-world villagers without electricity have cellphones. View quote
George Dyson
To avoid a blackout, electricity generating companies must lower generation in line with low demand. View quote
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice. View quote
Miguel Nicolelis
Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and how electricity is conducted through them... It enabled the development of transistors, integrated circuits, lasers, LEDs, digital cameras and all the modern gadgetry that surrounds us. View quote
Neil Turok
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. View quote
Nicholson Baker
When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am. View quote
Pete Postlethwaite
We're teaming up with a major Hollywood studio, and we're making a movie called 'Copper.' It's set on Mars in the 24th century. By then we've got 27 billion people in the world, copper is the world's most valuable metal because everything runs on electricity, and there's no more burning of hydrocarbons. View quote
Robert Friedland
Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'. View quote
Rebecca Ferguson
Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now. View quote
Reed Hastings
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. (Sherry Stringfield)
The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs. View quote
Shuji Nakamura
The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation. View quote
Spencer Abraham
The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists. View quote
Sam Wyly
Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's 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. View quote
Taylor Kitsch
Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized. View quote
Zeena Schreck
There are no souls, Melba thought with a touch of pity. We are bags of meat with a little electricity running through them. No ghosts, no spirits, no souls. The only thing that survives is the story people tell about you. The only thing that matters is your name. View quote
Daniel Abraham
It's pretty obvious that Western lifestyles which rely on gigantic amounts of electricity use up far more resources than a subsistence-based life. A little more poverty would be a good thing. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
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. View quote
Felix Bloch
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. View quote
James Thurber
In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on sueing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on. (Meat Loaf)
It's quite an obsession to me to communicate at this moment, at this time, with my audience. I don't only play for them, it's something I want to give back to them. I feel how each listener in the audience is listening to me, and I feel its warmness, for example, and I give it back to the complete audience. I feel the intensity of hearing, of listening. This is like electricity, and this I give back to the audience. It's very stimulating. View quote
Burkard Schliessmann
What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford. View quote
Freeman Dyson
The History of Electricity is a field full of pleasing objects, according to all the genuine and universal principles of taste, deduced from a knowledge of human nature. View quote
Joseph Priestley
The difficulty is to keep oneself untouched in a crowd: so many people try to speak to you or touch you: and your like electricity, in that one touch discharges all the virtue you have stored up. View quote
T. E. Lawrence