Batteries Quotes

• A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

  Elon Musk

  Cells, Numbers, Challenges

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.

  Demetri Martin

  Dramatic, Break, Objects

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• Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

  Ken Auletta

  Passion, Vision, Devices

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• If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Running, Self Esteem, Passion

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• How come everything I need always comes with batteries?

  John Mayer

  Needs, Unanswered Questions

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• Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

  Bill Watterson

  Running, Car, Mind

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Brain, Energy

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• Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

  Big Pun

  Education, Wise, Ghetto

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• Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery's dead?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Remote Control

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• There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Energy, Needs

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• What do batteries run on?

  Steven Wright

  Running, Home, Energy

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• A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Civil War, Fields, Artillery

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• It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.

  Margaret Cho

  Needs, Stories, Like You

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• There have been times I've been out, and my phone battery is at nine percent, and I was like, 'Time to go home.'

  Hannibal Buress

  Home, Phones, Nine

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• The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Depressing, Technology, Get Better

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• Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

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• Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

  Erma Bombeck

  Love, Marriage, Funny Relationship

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• I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

  Bernard Manning

  Funny, Birthday, Christmas

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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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• I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function

  Donald A. Norman

  Believe, Apples, Simplicity

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• The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low

  Parker Stevenson

  Boys, Return, Visibility

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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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• 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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• The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

  Jam Master Jay

  Technology, Phones, Cells

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• Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It 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.

  Gilbert Adair

  Past, Principles, Definitions

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