Quotes of: Electric-cars Keyword

Ah, well! then the young woman was only in advance of the age," said Miss Archer; "and what with that and the telephone, and that dreadful phonograph that bottles up all one says and disgorges at inconvenient times, we will soon be able to do everyth...

Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes

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.

Louis D. Brandeis

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

Rodney Dangerfield

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

Charles Dickens

As you know, Hurricane Sandy has affected thousands of families, leaving them without electricity, without household goods and, in the worst cases, without a home.

Thalia

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.

Spike Milligan

What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.

Oscar Isaac

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

Steven Johnson

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

Edith Sitwell

There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will.

Fernán Caballero

Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric.

Hugh Grant

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

Janet Frame

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

John Fogerty

Alan Turing: Think of it. A digital computer. Electrical brain.

The Imitation Game

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

Earl Wilson

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

Barry Commoner

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

Nick Cave

Although drinking to the point of becoming incapacitated is unwise and risky for anyone, the blame for rape must be put on the rapist who preys on a drunk woman, not a drunk woman who becomes prey. If my car is stolen after I’ve parked it with the ...

I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet

He put on his hat and wrapped his scarf around his jaw, but did without the wig and the sunglasses. He clicked his key chain and the car beeped and the doors locked. "That's it?" He looked up. "Sorry?" "Aren't you afraid it might get stolen? We're no...

Skulduggery Pleasant