#electric

They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#less #without

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#electric #extraordinary #had #her #i

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

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#cope #effects #electric #habitually #information

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

Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair? ↗

— Dennis Miller

#cost #days #does #electricity #expensive

If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections. ↗

— Bebe Neuwirth

#been #class #complete #connections #electricity

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

She knew they were all afraid. But love and disease are both like electricity, Weetzie thought. They are always there -- you can't see or smell or hear, touch or taste them, but you know they are there like a current in the air. We can choose, Weetzie thought, we can choose to plug into the love current instead. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#electricity #love #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