Electric Power Generation

Famous quotes containing the words electric power, electric, power and/or generation:

    Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Suddenly I’m not half the girl
    I used to be.
    There’s a shadow hanging over me . . .
    From me to you out of my electric devil....
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    He made no resistance whatever, and was stabbed in the back.... I must not dwell upon the fearful repast.... Words have no power to impress the mind with the exquisite horror of their reality.
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    They shall beget and rear children, handing on the torch of life from one generation to another.
    Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)