Quotes About Electric Power

#1. A woman says: I plan to cut the shoulder pads out of all my blouses and dresses and load them on a barge and dump them in Lake Winnipeg, creating a tidal wave which I'm told can be harnessed to provide electric power to the entire region.

Carol Shields

#2. Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth.

Martin Rees

#3. Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

Jeff Goodell

#4. Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.

Mikheil Saakashvili

#6. The ship founders on a sandbank and then gets back afloat. Electric power stops; after a while, the machines start up again. During such recesses, the anarch measures his own strength and autonomy.

Ernst Junger

#7. The Holy Spirit's motivation is always the same thing -to charge the word with heaven's own electric power.

Reinhard Bonnke

#8. Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same.

Lydia M. Child

#9. Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.

Nikola Tesla

#10. Heat energy of uniform temperature [is] the ultimate fate of all energy. The power of sunlight and coal, electric power, water power, winds and tides do the work of the world, and in the end all unite to hasten the merry molecular dance.

Frederick Soddy

#11. The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production.

Klaus Schwab

#12. She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

Holly Black

#13. Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

Larry Page

#14. I am fascinated to hear of the impact that ESOPs have had on work-force morale in corporations of all sizes such as Sears Roebuck, Potomac Electric Power, Lowe's Companies and the Dow Chemical Company.

Robert S. Strauss

#15. When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

#16. When I was younger, my goal in life was to work in special FX makeup. Liquid latex and fake blood! That was the dream!

Cullen Bunn

#17. Prepare while it's easy.

Laozi

#18. In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.

Stephen Moyer

#19. Just as, when we touch a live wire, the electric force infuses itself into our body, when we deeply meditate on God the power of the whole universe seeks entry into our personality.

Krishnananda Saraswati

#20. If stupid hippies hadn't killed nuclear power, we'd have nuclear power plants, safer and cheaper than coal-fired plants, all over, and electric cars really would be zero emissions.

Penn Jillette

#21. I wanted to make the world's greatest football undershirt. But I realized that no team sport had equipment for apparel. Apparel was an afterthought.

Kevin Plank

#22. General Electric, NBC's parent, is one of the largest corporations in the world, with an anti-labor history of outsourcing jobs and with financial links to military and nuclear power industries.

Bernie Sanders

#23. An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Thomas Paine

#24. Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion ...

Alessandro Volta

#25. During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When the power came on again, I discovered that I was actually disappointed. The electric lights seemed cold and impersonal; they revealed too much.

Damon Knight

#26. Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#27. Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won't operate at its peak ...

Carol Browner

#28. Ha!" cried Dr John contemptuously. "Magic! That is chiefly used for killing Frenchmen, is it not?

Susanna Clarke

#29. More than 30 of America's 100 nuclear power reactors have the same brand of General Electric reactors or containment system used in Fukushima.

Bill Dedman

#30. I wanted to take the power of thought and the word, along with the power of speaking and heart, and see if we could wire what was coming out of us as humans with electric instruments.

John Trudell

#31. End of February? Let's see . . . February 24th? Nothing. Nothing at all. I mean, Steve Jobs' birthday, but besides that, you know, a whole lot of nothing. I think it's a Monday.

T. Lucas Earle

#32. My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.

Lorna Luft

#33. There was a dark aura about him, a hint of caged power in that deceptively casual, sprawled poise. Danger personified.
If this had been a film she would have expected to hear the warning wail of an electric guitar creep over the soft background bustle of the city.

Heather R. Blair

#34. The Lord's capacity to forgive a person who is truly repentant is without limit, without qualification

Elizabeth Camden

#35. Niagara Falls Power Company chose to go with AC current to feed the industry of Buffalo, which became briefly known as the electric city of the future.

A.A. Gill

#36. No more diving into pools of chlorinated water lit green from below. No more ball games played out under floodlights. No more porch lights with moths fluttering on summer nights. No more trains running under the surface of cities on the dazzling power of the electric third rail. No more cities.

Emily St. John Mandel