Batteries Quotes

• Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.

  Demetri Martin

  Dramatic, Break, Objects

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• A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

  Elon Musk

  Cells, Numbers, Challenges

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• How come everything I need always comes with batteries?

  John Mayer

  Needs, Unanswered Questions

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• Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

  Ken Auletta

  Passion, Vision, Devices

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• If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Running, Self Esteem, Passion

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• Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

  Big Pun

  Education, Wise, Ghetto

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• Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Brain, Energy

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• Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

  Bill Watterson

  Running, Car, Mind

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery's dead?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Remote Control

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• A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Civil War, Fields, Artillery

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• There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Energy, Needs

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• Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

  Erma Bombeck

  Love, Marriage, Funny Relationship

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• It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.

  Margaret Cho

  Needs, Stories, Like You

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• What do batteries run on?

  Steven Wright

  Running, Home, Energy

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• The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Depressing, Technology, Get Better

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• Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

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• There have been times I've been out, and my phone battery is at nine percent, and I was like, 'Time to go home.'

  Hannibal Buress

  Home, Phones, Nine

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• Books dont need batteries

  Nadine Gordimer

  Book, Needs

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• I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

  Bernard Manning

  Funny, Birthday, Christmas

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• They run off eckeltricity, do they?" he said knowledgeably. "Ah yes, I can see the plugs. I collect plugs," he added to Uncle Vernon. "And batteries. Got a large collection of batteries.

  J. K. Rowling

  Running, Uncles, Yes I Can

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• The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.

  Elon Musk

  Electric Motors, Cells, Energy

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion.

  David Deida

  Masculine And Feminine, People, Flow

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• The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

  Jam Master Jay

  Technology, Phones, Cells

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• America is addicted to oil...We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric cars and in pollution-free cars that run on hydrogen. We will also fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switch grass.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Cutting, America

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

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• Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

  Rahul Dravid

  Reading

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