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«If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.»
Author: George Gobal
| About:
Funny,
Television
| Keywords:
candlelight, electricity, television, watching
«Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.»
«Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.»
«God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.»
Author: George MacDonald
| Keywords:
cloud, desired, electricity, feeblest, haven, havens, look upon, resource, rocks, storms, The Rocks, unfinished
«I shall make electricity so cheap that only the rich can afford to burn candles»
«Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Electricity
| Keywords:
application, Arts and, Arts and Industries, destined, economical, electricity, industries, propel, propelled, propelling, unsettle, unsettled, unsettles, unsettling
«It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my ''poems'' are competing.»
Author: E. E. Cummings
| Keywords:
acrobat, acrobats, competing, coney, Coney Island, electricity, island, July, July 4, locomotive, locomotives, mention, mice, Niagara, Niagara Falls, not to mention, poems
«I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
Electricity,
Heart,
Talent
| Keywords:
cathedral, electricity, electrocute, electrocutes, lamp, lighting-up, light up, plug, plugging, plug in, pump, pumping, pumps
«I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.»
Author: W. C. Fields
(Actor, Comic)
| Keywords:
applied, chair, electricity, expert, my father, occupied, The Chair
«Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
discharged, discharges, discharging, electricity, produced, similar, used up
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