Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.
... dizzy with the elevation to which the assassination [of Lincoln] has raised him.
Referring to President Andrew Johnson:
I did a tour down South someplace, and it was an all-day festival, and there were about 2,000 people. It was pouring down rain, and I went to grab the mic, and I got electrocuted. I felt the electricity flow through my body.
When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.
We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.
We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.
The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated.
We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.
We changed every lead in our whole system, and to this day we still don't really know why it did it. We think wires were touching and faulting. That was it really, but it didn't make it any easier.
Never put a sock in a toaster.
On Mir, the lights kept going out because it had developed so many electrical problems.
Reality is my drug. The more I have of it, the more power I get and the higher I feel
