Electric Clocks

Famous quotes containing the words electric and/or clocks:

“The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow, outvalues all the theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)