George Westinghouse Quotes

The alternating current will kill people, of course. So will gunpowder, and dynamite, and whisky, and lots of other things; but we have a system whereby the deadly electricity of the alternating current can do no harm unless a man is fool enough to swallow a whole dynamo.

George Westinghouse

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• Current

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• I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• The British have always made terrible parents.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Parents
  • Always
  • British

• I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Me
  • Because
  • Table

• The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Successful
  • Research
  • Theory

• Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Music
  • Live
  • Career

• Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Real
  • Want
  • Yourself

• The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • World
  • Nature

• I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Way
  • Nice
  • Competitive

• Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Me
  • Years
  • Finish

• Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Journey

• One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Moment

• I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Me
  • Finish
  • University

• I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Team
  • Tennis
  • Volleyball

• Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • End

• In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Time
  • Think
  • Die

• There is only one me.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Me
  • Only

• "For our legacy, I hope people would listen to the body of the work and not just one segment. Most people have their favorites or don't like us at all, and any of that's cool."

  

  Dusty Hill ZZ Top
  • People
  • Legacy
  • Favorites

• I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see.

  

  Gaston Leroux
  • Love
  • See
  • Wicked

• Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Money
  • Control
  • System

• Government is inevitably going to play a very significant role in infrastructure, and in a country with a federal system where vibrancy and economic health depend on interstate commerce, it's not going to be private enterprise or state governments that will give you things like an interstate highway system.

  

  Norman Ornstein
  • Government
  • System
  • Federal

• The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.

  

  William Paterson
  • Interest
  • System
  • Benefits

• The alternating current will kill people, of course. So will gunpowder, and dynamite, and whisky, and lots of other things; but we have a system whereby the deadly electricity of the alternating current can do no harm unless a man is fool enough to swallow a whole dynamo.

  

  George Westinghouse
  • System
  • Electricity
  • Current