Quotes About Electrocution

#1. When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution ... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

Paul Virilio

#2. The constant dangers of sudden electrocution from above or drowning in liquid shit below keep him looking up and down as well as side-to-side.

Neal Stephenson

#3. At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution.

Chris Burden

#4. That one tickled. If electrocution is your way of flirting, I commend you on your originality.

Jeaniene Frost

#5. I expect you (William Whitelaw) were as impressed as I was to read of the recent electrocution in Florida of a character called John Spenkelink in the electric chair. It seems that a full six minutes passed before Spenkelink was dead, during which time he hopped about like a prawn on a hot plate.

William Donaldson

#6. I know what you wanted to say, Do you think that electrocution rewired your brain to make you the retard that you are? You can say it, lady.

Andy Dick

#7. That's my theory: immediate electrocution of all ignorant and dirty people. I'm all for the criminals - give color to life. Trouble is if you started to punish ignorance you'd have to begin in the first families, then you could take up the moving-picture people, and finally Congress and the clergy.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. Utopians are heedless of methods. To render the human species happy, they are prepared to subject it to murder, torture, lethal injection, incineration, deportation, sterilization, quartering, lobotomy, electrocution, military invasion, bombing, etc.

Juan Rodolfo Wilcock

#9. I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times!

Jonathan Banks

#10. Yes, I thought I'd try electrocution next. Since a bomb, a fire, Vinco's knife and a brief encounter with outer space didn't kill me.

Maria V. Snyder

#11. The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging.

Meldrim Thomson Jr.

#12. The physiological effects of an electrocution are severe and painful. Besides launching the body into violent convulsions, the electrocution of a human being causes massive destruction throughout the body.

Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini

#13. The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.

Carlo Levi

#14. destroy me. love me. warp my image in photoshop with filter presets


push me off the brink of sanity. edit my sister sister fan fiction without my permish

Heiko Julien

#15. Even though she only used the dagger Jerin gave her for chopping meat and vegetables, Ethan still insisted she keep it on her at all times. That way, she mused, if anyone did attack her, she could make them a salad or something.

Jackie Castle

#16. the day is all about getting connected.

Judith Shulevitz

#17. Get it? Gender is a country, a field of signifying roses you can walk through, or wear tucked behind your ear.

Eventually the flower wilts & you can pick another, or burn the field, or turn & run back across the tracks.

(from "Essay on the Theory of Motion")

Cameron Awkward-Rich

#18. I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

Joan Didion