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.
Pico Iyer
LoveMomentMeSurpriseElectricity
The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever.
Scott McNealy
TodayServiceElectricityWayMore
There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.
Rex Tillerson
FoodAnimalPeopleWorldElectricity
Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!
Linwood Barclay
FamilyCarGodSmartElectricity
Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.
Janet Frame
DayWindElectricityGrayPeril
I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.
Henry Rollins
MusicElectricityLongNowCrystal
For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity; for electricity, you need some trained workers; for trained workers, you need some schools; for schools you need some money; for money, you need some industry.
Evan Davis
MoneyElectricityYouCountrySettle
I enjoy that with theater, you can just go into a room with a paper bag lunch: there're no cables, no electricity. It's the purest experience.
Bill Pullman
ExperienceLunchBagElectricityYou
I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a massive stone fireplace, a grand piano, and tons of books.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
ElectricityStoneHouseFireplaceUp
Time is our ultimate scarcity. Isaac Newton can give us more electricity, but he can't give us more than 24 hours of the day of time. And so we're constantly having to sacrifice alternate activities to get the one that pleases us most.
Paul Samuelson
TimeDaySacrificeElectricityMore
Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the poorest of the poor in rural India, will have access to clean and affordable electricity.
Jacqueline Novogratz
PowerImpactEnvironmentElectricity
The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera.
Frank Abagnale
MeStartInternetElectricityDown
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields
FatherI AmPrisonElectricityChair
The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
Sam Wyly
MoneyElectricityPowerfulDirtyAir
The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
ElectricityYouHeavenSeeWithin
When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
MotherDeepElectricitySometimes
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Earl Warren
MoneyManElectricityMayWhoMade
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.
John Burnside
RoadsElectricityLostDevelopment
I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.
Matt LeBlanc
ElectricityHouseBuildRoofThough
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
Stephen Leacock
PositiveNegativeElectricityMore
I just went to the hobby shop and got an electricity kit and a chemistry kit, and I'm really excited to do experiments like squeezing an egg into a bottle and growing crystals. I'm really getting into hobbies.
Rivers Cuomo
ElectricityHobbyEggGrowingBottle
The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted.
Louis de Broglie
SmallWaveElectricitySingleMyth
They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.
David Sedaris
PeopleElectricityKindNothingLike
Tribes have the potential to provide almost 15 percent of the country's electricity with wind power, and have 4.5 times the solar resources to power the entire U.S.
Winona LaDuke
PowerWindPotentialElectricity
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