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Quotes About Batteries

there's a better place to store your dead batteries than in your camera." "Yeah, I know. I usually keep them in my flashlight.
~ Jinx Schwartz
Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included.
~ Anonymous
Ewan McGregor and I had very similar first-time light sabre experiences. We both burned ourselves! These things are hot - they're full of batteries!
~ Hayden Christensen
when people don't have free access to books, then communities are like radios without batteries.
~ Anne Lamott
There was no safety for the survivors until they regained the cover of their artillery, which promptly drove the pursuers back with severe losses and shift without delay to the rebel batteries, blanketing them so accurately with shell-bursts that the fire drew an indirect compliment from Pelham himself, who happened to be visiting this part of the line at the time. Well, you men stand killing better than any I ever saw, he remarked as he watched the cannoneers being knocked about. (p. 37).
~ Shelby Foote
As for the age of electronics, Selena, I really don't want to get personal with something that comes with a warning label and batteries. (Grace)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Four years with no sex? Don't tell me that you've forgotten this is the Age of Electronics? I mean, really, do any of your patients know how long you've gone without sex? (Selena) Keep your voice down. I don't think it's the business of my patients whether or not I'm a born-again virgin. And as for the Age of Electronics, I really don't want to get personal with something that comes with a warning label and batteries. (Grace)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.
~ John Locke
I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.
~ Elizabeth Zimmermann
I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.
~ Rupert Friend
industry analyst Caspar Rawles maintains. "We expect cobalt supply from [Congo] to become more dominant in the market."200 Another industry analyst, Andries Gerbens, warns: "The cobalt-supply dependency on the Congo is a risky situation." 201 This dependence has sparked multiple research efforts at finding an alternative to cobalt to utilize in efforts to improve the life and cost-effectiveness of batteries.
~ John Prendergast
Gasoline has eighty times the energy density of the best lithium ion batteries.
~ John Stossel
It was one of the peculiar malfunctions of technology that shore batteries on the islands were generally of inadequate caliber and range to knock out a ship approaching with hostile intent. One is moved to wonder why, if a 10-pounder gun could be mounted on the rolling deck of a sailing vessel, the same or larger could not be mounted on land?
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
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
we brought the wires to the ground at the chapel, and then brought them under the ground to the platform, and hid the batteries there.
~ Mark Twain
I dropped my backpack, shrugged off my coat, and hopped on the exercise bike. Charging the batteries was usually the only physical exercise I got each day.
~ Ernest Cline
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
~ Bernard Manning
This is our lance. See, you're making me laugh about this now, because there have been a few jokes on the set about what they actually look like. But, see, I personally think they'd be a great toy. So... just batteries aren't included.
~ Kevin Sorbo
Time wasted can never be recaptured. Time spent recharging your batteries and maintaining your physical and mental health is not wasted. It is a necessity.
~ Felix Dennis
I quite like Torquay and might one day come back, but I can tell you this now: where watch batteries are concerned, they can go fuck themselves.
~ Bill Bryson
Besides, making electricity accounts for only 27 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions. Even if we had a huge breakthrough in batteries, we would still need to get rid of the other 73 percent.
~ Bill Gates
With the price of today's batteries, EV owners save money only if gas costs more than around $3 per gallon.
~ Bill Gates
You gonna be okay with that idiot car of yours? ..." "I've got AAA. They'll be here. Eventually." ... "Well, if they don't show, give the station a call and I'll drive over and jump you." There was a sort of strangled non-noise. "Jump your car. Jump-start it. The cruisers have incredible batteries." She started laughing. "Is that a Freudian slip, or are you just happy to see me?
~ Julia Spencer-Fleming
I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'
~ Demetri Martin