Electric Quotes

I sing the body electric.

A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just because the electric car doesn't emit fumes.

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

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.

All you need is a pool table, beer, an electric jukebox and good conversation. The day a girl beats me in a game of Beirut [a kind of beer pong] is a good sign!

I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads... I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said 'Grab the blade!

She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

Does the customer invent new product or service? The customer generates nothing. No customer asked for electric lights. There was gas and gas mantles, which gave good light.

To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.

The universe gives to those who ask without favor. The electric plug which connects you is desire.

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.

A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress.

If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.

The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

In a world of bands called Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank, Electric Sheep rolls off the tongue like a Shakespearean love sonnet. Leave me alone.

It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds.

He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.

It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.

There are hundreds of electromagnetic cases where spacecraft have been observed by police, military personnel and civilians to affect car engines, radios and other electric devices.

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.

There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.

I really prefer electric music.

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

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.

Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.

Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.

One has the feeling of enormous safety. You don't have the torque from the propeller. You have no noise; it's almost like little electric motors humming inside, and you feel sort of safe.

I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.

I would like to throw an egg into an electric fan.

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.

Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

The Music was like Electric Sugar

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

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

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.