#electricity

For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970. ↗

— John McGahern

#ago #came #come #community #electricity

My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side. ↗

— Bode Miller

#electricity #era #exposure #got #growing

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

— Janet Frame

#electricity #gray #peril #sings #wind

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#because #been #building #child #chose

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. ↗

— Jeffrey Skilling

#building #changing #company #creating #electricity

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#enthusiasm #habits #life #life

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. ↗

— James Buchan

#been #carriages #catastrophic #century #electricity

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. ↗

— Ray Charles

#force #know #light #like #really

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

— Greg Walden

#did #electricity #i #month #much

It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury. ↗

— Greg Walden

#administration #also #believe #cost #drive