Electricity quotes

“First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I were living in an H.G. Wells novel.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“The world will never be the same. I'm working on something now, something so new that people will forget I was ever associated with electricity.”
Benedict Cumberbatch - Thomas Alva Edison

“Death by stereo!”

Corey Haim - Sam

“Experts say unconsciousness occurs before pain has time to register. They agree that electrocution does not hurt. But it does. Unimaginably.”
Eric Mabius - Alex Corvis

“Sometimes when I'm sad, I sit and watch the power station. They say if you lie between two of the main wires, your body just evaporates, you become a gas. I wonder what that would feel like.”
Jessica Campbell - Tammy Metzler

“- Janet Beindorf: What are you doing?
- Ned Beindorf: Turning off the electricity, don't you understand? They can't survive without electricity: no Nintendo, no Mtv.”

Jamie Lee Curtis - Janet Beindorf
Kevin Pollak - Ned Beindorf

“- Mr. Taggart: We've no guarantee that these theories of yours are workable.
- Thomas A. Edison: Well, most electricity is theory yet.”
Gene Lockhart - Mr. Taggart
Spencer Tracy - Thomas A. Edison

“We make our own electric light here, and we are not very good at it.”
Ernest Thesiger - Horace Femm

“When a large nuclear device is airburst at high altitude, a lot of electrical disruption can be created, principally with radios, communication systems, electrical wires, computers, cars, transistors. Of course, it's all theoretical. It's never happened before. In short, very little electricity.”
Lin McCarthy - Dr. Austin

“- April Wheeler: I hear you're a mathematician.
- John Givings: You hear wrong. Its all gone now.
- April Wheeler: All gone?
- John Givings: You know what electrical shock treatments are?
- April Wheeler: Yes. Yes, I do.
- John Givings: I had thirty-seven. It's supposed to jolt out the emotional problems. It just jolted out the mathematics.”
Kate Winslet - April Wheeler
Michael Shannon - John Givings

“You either give me what I need or this switch will stay on until they turn the power off for lack of payment on the bill.”

Liam Neeson - Bryan Mills

“- Young Bobby Boucher: Mama, when did Ben Franklin invent electricity?
- Helen 'Mama' Boucher: That's nonsense, I invented electricity. Ben Franklin is the Devil!”
Jamie Williams - Young Bobby Boucher
Kathy Bates - Helen 'Mama' Boucher

“- Riff Randell: Kate, I'm getting some static.
- Kate Rambeau: Not as much as you're going to get.”

P.J. Soles - Riff Randell
Dey Young - Kate Rambeau

“Dad, he reckons power lines are a reminder of man's ability to generate electricity.”
Stephen Curry - Dale Kerrigan

- Rotelli: What if we say "no"?
- Joker: Well, Tony, nobody wants a war. If we can't do business, why, we'll just shake hands and that'll be it.
- Rotelli: Yeah?
- Joker: Yeah.
[Rotelli shakes hands with Joker and starts to get electrocuted]
Edwin Craig - Rotelli
Jack Nicholson - Joker

“I have always dreamt of a life without the ever present nuisance of electricity! Uh, uh, just let me grab something from the plane! I seem to have left my butter churn in the overhead compartment, hehe!”
Elijah Wood - North

“This is a graphic example of biofeedback. We're converting the very low-voltage alpha wave energy into electricity to run that train. And that train will only run when my friend Hester is in alpha.”
Carol Eve Rossen - Dr. Ellen Lindstrom

“- Elaine: This is an emergency!
- Power & Light man: It always is.
- Elaine: No, I am serious. My mother is a very sick woman. She's in the bed next to me with her kidney machine, which has kept her alive for seven years. This wonderful 84-year-old woman!”

Jane Curtin - Elaine
Garrett Morris - Power & Light Man

“You know, you're very beautiful. You're also very quiet. And I'm not used to girls being that quiet unless they're medicated. Normally I go out with girls who talk so much you could hook them up to a wind turbine and they could power a small New Hampshire town.”
Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer