#electric

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors. ↗

— David R. Brower

#consumption #continue #cool #electrical #energy

I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?' ↗

— Regina Spektor

#beatles #board #boo #car #day

I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit. ↗

— Kevin McKidd

#am #amp #annoy #drum #drums

Dream with my eyes open Sleep when I am dead Love who my heart's chosen Conquer what lies ahead ↗

— Ryan Keith Follese'

#follese #hot-chelle-rae #hotchellerae #keith #lovesick

Days grow hotter and life grows shorter. Time is somehow running out. She flips her pillow so she won't have to sleep on her tears. ↗

— Toby Barlow

#life

...take off your sweater in the darkness and static flares as a tiny lightning storm - I am the same at the end of your fingertips ... ↗

— John Geddes

#fingertips #lightning #love #poetry #love

My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there. ↗

— Andrea Gibson

#poetry #escape

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#because #buried #chair #dead #electric

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#defends #electric #friend #gets #her

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