#electric

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#around #been #catholic #catholic school #chairs

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

— Michael Burgess

#economy #electricity #emissions #energy #environmentally

Electricity is really just organized lightning. ↗

— George Carlin

#electricity #just #lightning #organized #really

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent. ↗

— George Carlin

#edison #electric #electric light #gas #had

I wonder if I could make an electric bass. ↗

— Leo Fender

#could #electric #i #i wonder #if i could

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#both #country #different #different styles #electric

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#everything #into #make #organ #saxophone

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. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#care #consuming #electricity #farmer #health

Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#becomes #brought #copper #current #electrical

I just prefer wood. I like the smell. To me, it's a lot cheaper than electric or gas, and it's more convenient. It's just a better heat to me. ↗

— Junior Johnson

#cheaper #convenient #electric #gas #heat