Blackouts Quotes

• I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war.

  A. S. Byatt

  War, Dark, World

  "Happy ever after" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• Wow, you survived a blackout. You're made of stronger stuff than ice cream.

  Lewis Black

  Ice Cream, Stronger, Wow

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• We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

  Richard Burr

  Reality, Light, Reliability

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• The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

  Sara Sheridan

  Sky, Black, Crystals

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• I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff.

  John Tesh

  Son, Years, Covering

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• From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Reality, Perspective, Needs

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• The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts - and in handling all these breakages, we are, at all times, so incredibly intimate with sharp edges, the unending knife-like moments of failure and joy in our lives.

  Alex Lemon

  Knives, Joy, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.

  Paul Gillmor

  Jobs, Oil, Important

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• I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

  Kamisese Mara

  Heart, Aggravation, Deterioration

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• The traditional dictionary definition of the difference is that an alcoholic will steal your wallet in a blackout, come to, and apologize for it. A junkie will steal your wallet and then help you look for it. But ultimately I think all addictions boil down to just not being able to be with yourself for any long degree of time.

  Jerry Stahl

  Thinking, Differences, Addiction

  "Jerry Stahl Talks Smack". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2013.

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• Nothing good ever happens in a blackout. I've never woken up and been like, 'What is this Pilates mat doing out?'

  Amy Schumer

  Inspirational, Funny, Pilates

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• You both passed out,” Percy said. “I don’t know why, but Ella told me not to worry about it. She said you were…sharing?” “Sharing,” Ella agreed. She crouched in the stern, preening her wing feathers with her teeth, which didn’t look like a very effective form of personal hygiene. She spit out some red fluff. “Sharing is good. No more blackouts. Biggest American blackout, August 14, 2003. Hazel shared. No more blackouts.” Percy scratched his head. “Yeah…we’ve been having conversations like that all night. I still don’t know what she’s talking about.

  Rick Riordan

  Night, August, Talking

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• Oh my God! It's a blackout!

  Shawn Michaels

  Wwe

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• I remember one night in Memphis, I'd come out of a blackout, and I didn't know where I was. I'm feeling through the darkness - I was asleep in the middle of a freeway. I went up to this car in the darkness, and it was a cop car.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Night, Car, Feelings

  Source: www.nola.com

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• The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Data, Doe

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Technology, Management and Society”, p.11, Routledge

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• I was convinced before the game that we had a very good chance but today was what you would call in Germany a blackout.

  Felix Magath

  Football, Games, League

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• I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it's possible that I even had a few blackouts.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Years, Amsterdam, Intense

  "Confessions of a Genius Art Forger". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Sven Robel, www.spiegel.de. March 9, 2012.

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• In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened The Iron Curtain of Discreet Silence. Virtually nothing has been written to reveal the truth about British responsibility for the Second World War and its disastrous results.

  Harry Elmer Barnes

  Country, War, Responsibility

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• To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Tree, Paper

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• I had blackouts, fallen out, of course, the death threats, people showing up, putting guns to my wife's head with mask, and people having shot guns in the driveway, looking for me or announcing that I've already died before lectures and sending it through newspaper - sending it to newspaper columns they send my mother and so on. There's a real night side to my particular calling, which is try to bear witness to love and truth.

  Cornel West

  Mother, Real, Night

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• I know people that have blacked out that I party with that dont do anything irresponsible. They just act drunk, ... I dont think people should ever drink by themselves because they need to have friends around that can keep them in line in case they do blackout.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Party, Thinking, People

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• Every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to. Even as a Beatle, they'd say, 'Oh, double-track that.' I don't know how you do that, because when I'm in a fill I'm sort of this blackout, just this pure me coming out and I can't pure me the same, twice. So, that's that.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Track, Different

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and there was a blackout. On every side you heard people crying: 'Look at the moon!' The moon had been there every minute of their lives and they'd never seen it.

  Laurens van der Post

  Summer, War, Moon

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• Britney Spears' album Blackout is one of the hottest-selling CDs in the country. We're in a bad place, people: The world is melting, we're at war, and Two and a Half Men is a huge hit.

  Chelsea Handler

  Country, War, Men

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• I'm from Downer's Grove, Illinois. We had a blackout there the other day, but fortunately the police made him get back into his car before he got too far.

  Emo Philips

  Illinois, Car, Police

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