Famous quotes containing the words electric power, electric, power and/or company:
“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)
“The widest prairies have electric fences....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
“People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)