Electrical Work Quotes

I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.

It's me who fixes the roof, unblocks the drain, and changes the plug. I'm Spartacus.

My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.

Speaking fluent English - like doing long division or successfully rewiring a 220-volt electrical outlet - is not a skill you're born with. It's something you learn, occasionally even by opening some old dictionary.

I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

I can build a house with my bare hands. In my late teens I was in a band with my friend Henrik, and his builder father thought we needed something to fall back on, so he taught us carpentry and bricklaying and we built a house over two years.

I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.

I went back to college for construction and design.

I was an electrician, and now I'm in 'Electric Dreams.' It's almost bizarre.

To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the building trade, I worked in a builders' merchants in Stoke.

I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.

My dad was an electrical engineer.

I was walking home from school when I was about 17 with two friends, and they took a left into an electrical shop. While we were chatting away, they grabbed a couple of forms and I was handed one. My mum found it and made me fill it in. I got called for an interview, and that's how I ended up being an electrician for 11 years.

I grew up around hardware. I could sell you all the plumbing and electricity you want.

I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.

I can get a good doctor in a minute and a half. Getting a really good electrician - that's hard.