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Energy Quotes


"If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county."


"The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office."


"Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast."


"You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness."


"We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy."


"Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods."


"It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil."


"We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy."


"Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel."


"There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels."


"An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job."


"I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write."


"Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics."


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


"If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit."


"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."


"I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy."


"It's always been an ebb and flow of interest and energy."


"We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate."


"When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing."


"There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable."


"Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?"


"I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem."


"Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you."


"For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house."


"We already get more energy from Canada than from any other foreign country."


"Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient."


"The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you."


"The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies."


"The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally."


"We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week."


"When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal."


"On energy, we should be exploring for domestic sources of energy."


"But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country safer by cutting our reliance on foreign oil."


"The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams."


"If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground."


"If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up."


"You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world."
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