#electric

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

#electricity #first #industry #money #need

It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls! ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#candle #electricity #knit #like #need

When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#developing #difficult #electric #facilities #gasoline

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#glacier #heart #moves #pain #reaches

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#concert #electricity #endings #fifteen #fried

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

#electricity #fields #french #french people #generous

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer? ↗

— Andres Segovia

#electric #heard #matter #singer #violin

There's an electrical thing about movies. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#about #electrical #thing

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights. ↗

— Sherry Stringfield

#around #because #bills #electricity #had

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#behind #down #electrical #fear #instance