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When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.
Will Smith
Father
,
Growing
,
Engineer
I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.
Hillary Clinton
Smart
,
Union
,
United
I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd be interested,' and then give an electrical shock to the sender to remind him or her to stop send that kind of message.
Scott Adams
Him
,
Give
,
Thought
Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
Robert Byrne
Law
,
Protect
,
Burn
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Reason
,
Shock
,
Contact
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
Barbara Kingsolver
Truth
,
Pain
,
Heart
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
Polly Toynbee
Happiness
,
Pain
,
Brain
Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.
David Ogden Stiers
Change
,
Time
,
Off
Having an audience is almost like plugging me into an electrical outlet. People feed me so much of their energy. We have a great time. It's all about the fellowship.
Paula Deen
Time
,
Great
,
Energy
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.
David R. Brower
Cool
,
Energy
,
Year
We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.
Ian Somerhalder
Yourself
,
Through
,
Made
We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.
Dominic Monaghan
Die
,
Energy
,
Else
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Margaret Fuller
Women
,
Spiritual
,
Genius
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
Harriet Van Horne
Days
,
House
,
Seems
There's an electrical thing about movies.
Oliver Stone
Movies
It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.
Garrett Hedlund
Down
,
Looking
,
Stage
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
James Cameron
Mother
,
Father
,
She
The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.
Richard Neal
Year
,
Economy
,
Number
Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.
Richard Neal
Power
,
Through
,
Lightning
The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
Vinton Cerf
Power
,
Fear
,
Down
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
Edgard Varese
Music
,
Old
,
Write
We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.
Johannes Stark
Experience
,
Through
,
Second
I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.
Marc Garneau
Education
,
Wanted
,
Call
These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.
John Perkins
Big
,
Few
,
System
Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet.
Hermann von Helmholtz
Current
,
Pieces
,
Steel
In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.
Koichi Tanaka
Technology
,
University
,
Faculty
I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.
Koichi Tanaka
Time
,
Reason
,
Child
And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.
Ginni Rometty
Time
,
Technology
,
Woman
In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?
Humphry Davy
Knowledge
,
May
,
Energy
During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
Walter Kohn
School
,
Two
,
Small
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