Electrical Discharge Quotes

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

Lightning crashed on the horizon. A breeze swirled around the Cast Members. The air tasted dusty, almost bitter, with electrical charge.

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.

Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster?

An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent it's striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building.

Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.

The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

Neon signs don't consume much power, but they look like they do. A cousin of fluorescent lighting, neon is actually quite energy efficient. A neon tube glows coolly when high-voltage, low-amperage electrical power excites the gas within it.

Put yourself in the path of lightning.

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

I loved watching the base of those thunderstorms, the billowing tops of the cumulonimbus, the lightning that effortlessly lit up the lake and the sky. It was gorgeous, so energetic. I was in love.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

I was reading that lightning is a negative charge that comes from the friction that clouds carry. And since opposites attract, I would like to think that he was so positive the moment that he died, so happy, he pulled that bolt right out of the sky. I don’t know if that’s possible, but that’s what I believe.

There is no light in electronincs. There is lightening. But lightening is not real light.

We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.