Voltage Quotes

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

I just go out there and be myself and turn up the voltage a little bit for entertainment value.

I fell in love with electricity.

We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

I can't change a light bulb.

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.

In German, if a situation is tense, you say 'unter strom' - under electricity.

Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in conductors, which all previous electricians had only succeeded in loosely binding together qualitatively under some rather vague statements. Even as late as 20 years ago, "quantity" and "tension" were much used by men who did not fully appreciate Ohm's law.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights.

Somewhere in the center of my soul, a rusty chain began to unwind. It freed itself, link by link, from where it had rested, unobserved, waiting for him. My hands, which had been balled up and pressed against his chest, unfurled with it. The chain continued to drop, to an unfathomable depth where there was nothing but darkness and Matthew. At last it snapped to its full length, anchoring me to a vampire. Despite the manuscript, despite the fact that my hands contained enough voltage to run a microwave, and despite the photograph, as long as I was connected to him, I was safe.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.

I put a charge into a lot of balls. Still can.

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

The current is with us.