Batteries Quotes - Page 2

• Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

  Lyman Abbott

  Future, Past, Might

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• We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.

  David Milne

  Electronics, Requirements, Continuing

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• The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

  Don DeLillo

  Fire, House, Alarms

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.

  John Locke

  Wall, Mind, Enemy

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.516

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• I travel with a bunch of battery packs because I don't always have time to charge my phone at the hotel room when I'm traveling. I always change them, so I never run out of battery.

  Avicii

  Running, Phones, Rooms

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Im Sorry, Humor

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.

  Wayne Swan

  Exercise, People, Focus

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Beautiful, Forever, Demand

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• It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well.

  Thomas Dolby

  Technology, Years, Two

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• I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it.

  Marc Jacobs

  Phones, Years, Numbers

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• I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.

  Rupert Friend

  Tired, Artist, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.

  Ernie Pyle

  Feet, Light, Soldier

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• Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Years, Uptown, Downtown

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• My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

  Ed Balls

  Running, Phones, Messages

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• Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Running, Ideas, Energy

  "Elizabeth Costello". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2003.

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• What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

  Agnes Repplier

  Laughter, Dust, Laughing

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Acid, Used, Sells

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• Some technologies don't pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. ... I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Technology, Wind

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

  Donald Miller

  Art, People, Flattery

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• I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Energy, Exhausted, Wonder

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “His Last Bow”, p.109, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• You can take a book to the beach without worrying about sand getting in its works. You can take it to bed without being nervous about it falling to the floor should you nod off. You can spill coffee on it. You can sit on it. You can put it down on a table, open to the page you're reading, and when you pick it up a few days later it will still be exactly as you left it. You never have to be concerned about plugging a book into an outlet or having its battery die.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Beach, Reading, Coffee

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• I recently went to the hardware store and I bought some used paint... it was in a shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  "I Have A Pony". Comedy album by Steven Wright, 1985.

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• In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it.

  Bill Gates

  Order, Years, Tough Times

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

  Stephen King

  Book, Perfect, Dollars

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• The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Law, Destruction, Protect

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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