Electricity Quotations

The aliens coming and wiping our electricity and having technical power over us... we don't know what's out there. It something that seems so fictional, but it's something that's possible.

Climate change is important to Malawi, but many people see alternative energy more as a means to skip the government and get electricity and power. Deforestation is a huge problem in Malawi, which only adds to the problem. People cut down trees because they have no power to run electric stoves, etc. So they use firewood.

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

I am such a sap when it comes to love! I believe in love at first sight all the way. But that's just the way it happened to me with my relationships. I love the idea of two people looking at each other and electricity flying around them; it's so romantic, and it's a great feeling.

If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity.

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.

Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and how electricity is conducted through them... It enabled the development of transistors, integrated circuits, lasers, LEDs, digital cameras and all the modern gadgetry that surrounds us.

The electricity tariff in Punjab is highest in north India, and it should be decreased.

I sometimes question whether journalists here are being asked to take up roles that are not ours. I get calls from people complaining that their telephone is out of order or that electricity is cut, and I sometimes wonder why don't they call the telephone or electric company.

A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours - one reason the globe, if looked at from a certain height, is a cluster of lights surrounded by enormous patches of dark.

I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my stepdad couldn't get a job. So I think a lot about families like mine who were middle class and struggled. So that experience really drives my philosophy.

I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.

It's true that I had a bucolic, truly peaceful childhood, growing up in a house next to our family's orchard. We had a lot of books and art, but no electricity until I was eight years old. Since then, I have seen a lot of inner-city life, though.

Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines.

Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.

I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.

'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

In the south of France the phones cut in and out, the electricity isn't particularly reliable. I think many people would get very irritated with that life.

In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility.

What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me this, and the occasional singer or film-maker or artist. But my most reliable sources of electricity are Henry David Thoreau, Shakespeare, Melville and Emily Dickinson.

I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.

One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved.

The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

Look at electricity in human history - it took a few decades for electricity to really revolutionize the American economy. And the Internet will be the same. At some point in the future, we will arrive at a new era of low-hanging fruit.

Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework.

Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power.

For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.

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.

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

The power company shut off the electricity to the mine because the company was in arrears in paying its power bill.

The per-pupil (funding) covers everything a school needs ? electricity, water, all the expenses a regular school has ? except it doesn't cover capital improvement or building a new school.

We stand with Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan in this lawsuit, ... The Illinois Commerce Commission does not have the legal authority to order a power auction with unlimited rate hikes as the outcome. The ICC should tell Ameren and ComEd to take their auction proposal to Springfield for review by the General Assembly, which approved a Public Utilities Act that clearly gives Illinois regulators final say over electricity rates.

Where is General Garner now? ... The people need assistance here in Nasiriya. Why are they not here? Why don't they work to rehabilitate the electricity and water? Why don't they start working on the curriculum? Why are they in Kuwait?

We're not going to see new investment in Ontario's forest sector as long as Ontario has the highest electricity rates in North America (and) as long as Ontario has the highest wood costs in North America,

We've been able to hold the line on electricity prices for a long time. Unfortunately, the costs we incur to serve customers have continued to rise over the years.

When we had abundant cheap power there is less incentive to develop alternative sources of power. Now that we face scarce electricity supplies and much higher prices, that is changing.

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

We're focused on things that will do one of three things. Put more electrons into the system, more electricity, reduce the demand by conservation and energy efficiency, and make the transmission, distribution, billing and generating system more efficient.

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.

We're really aggressive about energy management. The less electricity you have to use, the less you have to generate. Renewable energy is great, but if you don't even have to use that, that's better.

With the peak summer season for electricity approaching and rail deliveries of coal still not where we would like them to be, we are monitoring this situation carefully.

We knew they'd come out with the atmosphere of the game and electricity in the air they'd come out ready to play. And we knew we had to match that. I think coming out and giving up that early touchdown hurt us a little bit.

Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.

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

We want rate stability like everybody else. Rates set at actual cost are the best way to price electricity.

We are honored to participate in this Consumer Choice Initiative, and we applaud the Mayor for recognizing the importance of consumer choice and especially for educating consumers about the benefits of pollution free electricity from renewable sources. Most people don't know that making electricity is the leading cause of industrial air pollution in the United States. Green Mountain Energy Company provides customers with an easy way to purchase clean, affordable electricity.

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

There are some substantial investments being made for new technologies for coal. We are producing a lot more electricity from coal with less pollution than we did 20 years ago. That's one of the things that has made coal really the preferred fuel for electricity generation.

We've served the Houston market for four years and look forward to participating in the Consumer Choice Initiative. We're taking an extraordinary step to support this program with a store in Houston. This location is a convenient place for Houstonians to shop for electricity with straight talk and the opportunity to enjoy real savings.

We've seen our electric bills skyrocket. The city is trying to help. Our goal is to lower and stabilize what you pay for electricity supply.

The poor will always be among us. In their mind, as long as they get gas and electricity, they're OK. But what about the next month? And the next? . . . The challenge is helping people to break out of the mentality of poverty.

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

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

The price must go up to foot the bill of the new power stations. Without a shadow of a doubt electricity tariffs will increase.

We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before.

When you buy electricity from out of state ... you are essentially taking dollars out of your pocket and sending it to another state.

Lighting is too expensive, so we plan to lease the lights from TECO. The cost of electricity will be passed on to businesses along the road.

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.

Shortage of electricity is still a major inconvenience. Electricity is an essential ingredient of economic development. We need to ensure that electricity generation grows rapidly and that power shortages are eliminated.

Since there is no electricity, there won't be any air conditioning or relief from the humidity and heat. I can't be exposed to extreme heat and humidity with my condition. If that wasn't the case, I would've been out of here days ago.

Six months later (after Katrina), I expected things to be pretty normal. So many still didn't have electricity. It was surprising. Restaurants were still not functioning. It still looked like it just happened a few days ago.

Most of these systems will generate more (electricity) than they use and that's the idea here. Usually after 14 years it's a break even. I think you will see a lot more of it (in Poway Unified) in the future.

Mississippi Power came in and was able to get our electricity back to us and we are hoping the water will be back tomorrow. The next 24 to 36 hours will be really critical for us. We are hoping to restock our supplies and develop a plan for the next few weeks and months. This is only the beginning of a long recovery process.

One of my friends said almost nothing is left. Buildings are down, electricity is gone. Telephone lines are down and rain is pouring in and hundreds of people are lying dead and nobody's there to bury them.

None of these bills contain any provisions to keep electricity affordable in Maryland.

No one knows what the cost of gas or coal is going to be in the future. But once past the capital costs, we can figure what wind-produced electricity will be cost.

No new power plant will be allowed to consume natural gas for electricity generation from the year 2012.

More customers are now taking the opportunity to generate their own electricity, which can help them save money on their electricity bills.

Money's just getting tight and something had to go. And insurance is one of the easiest things when you compare it to electricity and phone and mortgage.

Maybe they're waiting for the situation to stabilize. But, whatever the reasons, the electricity crisis puts us at risk.

Nuclear power can never be made inherently safe. There is always a danger. But there's also always a danger with any form of electricity generation. The goal is to have that risk managed to an acceptably low level.

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

Phase two of the emissions trading scheme would result in further hikes in energy costs at a time when firms are enduring the highest gas and electricity prices for more than a decade.

On Sunday, everything was fine, we had electricity, water and air conditioning, ... On Monday, we lost electricity. By Tuesday the water was coming in through the holes in the roof, the electricity and air conditioning were off and toilets were beginning to back up. People were getting frustrated.

If we're going to talk electricity policy, we have to talk about economic and industrial policy too.

I grew up around hardware. I could sell you all the plumbing and electricity you want.

I applaud DARPA for recognizing the tremendous potential of solar energy to provide reliable electricity to our troops in the field and to improve our energy security here at home.

I anticipate Lufkin to lose power on Sunday, so we are preparing be without power. A nursing home must maintain electricity as long as possible because many of our patients are on oxygen concentrators and feeding tubes that depend on electricity to run. And there are a lot of meals to prepare.

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.

I have argued for quite a long time that we should define humanitarian assistance in a broad enough manner to allow for assistance and repairs to electricity and heating systems and water for people through the winter, ... Otherwise we will have another humanitarian crisis on our hands.

If electricity breaks down, you have to repair a power station, you can't just send an e-mail.

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

I expect these bids on long-term energy contracts should stabilize the market and drive the price of electricity down. This is a key step in our efforts to keep the lights on in California at a reasonable price.

From the current snapshot, (electricity) conditions look a lot more similar to last year than they appear different.

If it gets to the point that I don't feel that electricity when the dogs take off, I'll quit.

If we need to drain the water, we will do it at a point where demand for electricity is low.

He had promised a 24-hour electricity facility for markets and even proper drainage but nothing has happened so far. The decisions taken at these visits are adopted only if they are heeded to.

He grabbed that rail, ... He just hadn't realized that we had switched on the electricity yet, and that's what we're going to do with this television ad as well.

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

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

What we have is the ability to take this essential item -- electricity -- and place its creation on an individual's shoulders rather than on big corporate shoulders. We have taken it out of the realm of being a commodity that we purchase to something you can grow.

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

Here we are now the first day of autumn and those lakes are a long way below where they should be, and we do need to be thinking about an electricity shortage in winter.

We lost pressure with the gas. It's not like the electricity where you can just switch it back on. You have to go into each place and turn it off at the meter. We are doing a lot of knocking.