top of page
Energy Quotes


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


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


"There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR."


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


"I don't look at this as a religious based thing. To me this is energy based."


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


"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."


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


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


"I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more."


"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."


"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."


"Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured."


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


"The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light."


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


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



"For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills."


"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."


"We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production."


"If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him."


"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."


"I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever."


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


"The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately."


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


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



"And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings."


"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 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."


"If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas."


"Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion."


"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."


"The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry."
bottom of page
