Electricity Quotes
We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
Thomas A. Edison's statement to a reporter during the first public demonstration of his incandescent (December 31, 1879), as quoted in Chris J. Magoc "Chronology of Americans and the Environment" (p. 46), 2011.
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.
Melvil Dewey (1888). “Libraries as Related to the Educational Work of the State”
"Nam June Paik retrospective, Liverpool" by Emma O'Kelly, December 20, 2010.
Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.382
Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.
Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”
Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.90, Penguin
Song: Kissin' U, Album: Sparks Fly, 2010