Electricity is really just organized lightning.
Quote by George Carlin
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Electricity is really just organized lightning.
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George Carlin Quotes
- When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
- Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
- I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
- When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
- I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
- You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.
- Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
- Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
- Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
- The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
Best Quotes
- Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
- I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
- I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
- But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
- I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.
- I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.
- A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
- When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
- Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.