Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are looking forward to being at home again. We have not played a home night game, so I hope there is a great electric atmosphere. I'm hoping we will get a lot of students out, which would be great.

Carlos Ghosn

Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

We want to put the outside electric service underground, and it took three months to get a state permit for the 5-foot run.

We have no electricity, no public water that is safe to drink, and no telephones in most areas.

We found ourselves with no water, electricity or phone for weeks. We needed to rebuild the entire infrastructure.

We're not a heavy user of energy. You may start to see an impact on electricity (rates) because we use gas for generation plants.

Martin Chalfie

We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an electrical signal. We know how smells are detected. But we have a vast number of senses for which we know what the signal is, but we don't know what the receiver is.

Vermont Yankee supplies one-third of the state's electrical energy, and we want that supply to remain available,

Alexandra Paul

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

Tom Hodgkinson

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.

I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I found enough wasteful spending without reducing any programs anywhere, without reducing any services, I found enough wasteful spending to pay my entire salary for three years.

Because of its shortcomings - driving range, cost, and recharging time - the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars.

Herbie Hancock

When I did Future 2 Future, it occurred to me, that I hadn't really done anything in electric music in a while.

The price of gasoline, electricity, the price of natural gas, it's been a triple hit for the consumer.

Lower prices are hurting utilities and energy companies. Electricity prices are an enormous risk for utilities so we shouldn't be surprised by the response.

Seamus Heaney

We want the surprise to be transitive like the impatient thump which unexpectedly restores the picture to the television set, or the electric shock which sets the fibrillating heart back to its proper rhythm.

Ally Carter

It's not Cam's fault," Bex told her. "We rigged her bed so that if she gets up, I get an electric shock." "Liz designed it," Macey said, and Bex shrugged "We told you we were taking precautions." Of course. Because at Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy".

We had no electricity, water or services. One of us would volunteer each week to pick up the garbage and take it away to some nearby Bedouins who would offload the trash if they couldn't keep it.

Eric Clapton

When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

Paul Parker

Though we had a good sales tax year, it's not enough to offset electric and fuel bills. We don't want to raise property taxes. We're looking at other growth to pay these bills.

We don't have enough electricity because we don't have enough power stations.

People will learn about electricity but also get to explore static electricity.

Basically, the electricity in my heart wasn't working correctly.

Imagine if your hair was to stand up from static electricity, that's kind of what the corona looks like all around the sun.

Greg Walden

I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.

Bruce Bowen

We should pay you the wholesale rate for ... your electricity.

The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.

Daniel Yergin

In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their rated total generating capacity. Today, as a result of several decades of experience and an intense focus on performance ... nuclear plants in the United States operate at over 90 percent of capacity. That improvement in operating efficiently is so significant in its impact that it can almost be seen as a new source in electric power itself.

Wayne Taylor

I think it may have started as an electrical fire because I started smelling something in the cockpit,

James Thurber

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

John Updike

Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.

There is no electricity in parts of town, but there is food, there is water.

Ray Charles

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room