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Energy Quotes


"Shane sat like a statue if a statue wore headphones and radiated angry coiled tension that made hair stand up on a person's arms. She felt like she was sitting next to an unexploded bomb, and given all of the physics she'd had, she understood what that meant. Talk about potential energy."


"When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now."


"With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft."


"The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States."


"I've always had way too much energy so I'm always looking for new things to do to channel that energy."


"I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor."


"The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much."


"Watch your thoughts, for they will become the words of people you draw to yourself."


"We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays."


"They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity."


"We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart."


"I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff."


"I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living."


"There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong."


"There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China."


"It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable."


"Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population."


"Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy."


"In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil."


"I've always stayed pretty fit. I felt I needed to give myself energy by exercising and things like that."


"Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one."


"As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices."


"That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!"


"I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament."


"The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems."


"We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs."


"Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef."


"The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security."


"What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days."


"But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected."


"When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy."


"With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing."


"Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that."


"We get more oil from Canada than any country."


"We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels."


"When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen."


"When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England."
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