Static Electricity Quotes

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.

Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity. If you wanted to run the blender, you had to rub balloons on your head. If you wanted to cook, you had to pull off a sweater real quick

We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?

The night crackled ... Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

I think there's a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

I actually studied literature at university, so I'm much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.