Electric Calm

Famous quotes containing the words electric and/or calm:

    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)

    An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)