Electric Quotes

A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.

I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.

I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to be the lead, but I don't dance. I just do a lot of sitting down. It's too tiring to get up and dance around. That should be coming out in 20-never.

On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

We should do another 10 Bad Boys movies. I could come in in one of those electric wheelchairs, like Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, just shouting away.

The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

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

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it.

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.

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.

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.