Batteries Quotations

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

I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries.

The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products - circuits, motors, and batteries already included. At that point, all bets are off.

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.

I love being around my friends and my family and spending time with my husband. I like being normal and recharging my batteries, and I feel like I have the coolest job in the world where I get to get on stage and perform and get to do a lot of really amazing things.

The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated.

I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

My friends always joke that I run on batteries.

The first thing I did on my diet was take the batteries out of the remote control and make myself get up and change the channel. That's probably the hardest exercise I did.

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.

I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.

Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.

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.

No one ever really lost their job because they replaced a room full of batteries again.

Most of the time, they're doing marketing surveys. Like, we sell more batteries in this ZIP code, so we'll stock more at this store. It's not really a bad thing. Where it becomes a problem is when they carry it a little further.

Batteries are a necessary part of hybrid electric-gasoline powered vehicles and someday, when the technology matures, will be part of hybrid electric-hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles.

Batteries tend to last about three years and then fail suddenly.

He was a multi-millionaire. Wanna know how he made all of his money? He designed the little diagrams that tell which way to put batteries in.

Literally, a few years ago you'd have to change your batteries every year to ensure they'd work in a disaster.

I saw him in a couple of minor league games and he looked really good. He can do a lot for us. When he gets on base he charges the batteries of everybody.

I will now spend a short period of time to rest, recharge my batteries before contemplating my future

I think (the rest was) clearly a bonus for us because we had hit the wall physically and mentally. I think we've caught a great time to get our breath, get our batteries charged, get a few guys back healthy and rest a few guys that had had some knocks and bruises.

I think right now it's time to turn it up another notch. It's time to refuel the batteries and go for it. This month is real important to us. The first 15 days are real important for us. Hopefully we can go there and we believe we can do that and hopefully everybody on my team thinks the same way I think.

It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.

To make it really work, the cost has to be cut in half. The cost of the batteries is very high. We fortunately control the cost of the CPU, the electric motor.

I would absolutely love it if you didn't have to ever change the batteries. I am so cautious about that, I even keep batteries with me all the time.

The acid found in these batteries could seep into the ground, polluting our surroundings for generations to come.

Will the suit overheat? How long will the batteries last? Can we get a clear transmission if the suit tumbles?

We do have six healthy batteries online. So we are back up to full strength.

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

He [Andy warhol] went out every evening to five or six parties with a tape recorder in one pocket and a camera with extra film and batteries in the other pocket, constantly recording and photographing everyone he came across.

We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it

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

A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit.

When we're in Sun, we run on the solar cells and charge the batteries. In eclipse, just the batteries power the spacecraft.

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

I took the batteries out my mysticism / 
And put them in my thinking cap

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

In a wristwatch, imagine the battery is in the strap and there's a medical sensor in there connected to the internet. If someone is monitoring that, they could phone up if the user has forgotten to take some medication. This could save hundreds of dollars in medical fees later. What's missing? It's a stable battery.

It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.

We will experiment with sensors and software that will help us manage a generator and batteries that provide power to a habitat, while we are living and working inside (of it).

We would like to have students and other engineers exercise and operate the spacecraft after the biology has been completed for at least some of that time. Of course, if a critical system were to fail or wear out, like the batteries or communications radio, then that's it since we do not have a lot of redundancy in the design.

Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a film. Sometimes it's great that they are different, and simply taking a break from one medium to spend time with another, recharges the batteries and I feel refreshed.

I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use Twitter. I don't give anyone a lot to grab onto. Sometimes, I even take out the battery of my mobile phone so that I can't be localized.

I got a vibrator that needed two nine volt batteries. What am I - R2D2? I don't know what to do with that.

New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.

We're quite excited about it. These are batteries that can be charged faster and can run longer and are really a major step up.

I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries....

Things like wireless, customers expect to just work. We need power management to just work, to make sure our laptop batteries work for longer than 15 minutes.

The winds are forecast to remain calm, so if we wait until tomorrow morning, the batteries will deplete, the relays and valves will go to the normally open condition. As the oxidizer warms up, the tank vents will open, removing the flight pressure. With the booster depressurized and batteries depleted, it will then be safe to approach the rocket.

They appeared, luckily, to be in fine health. This group was pretty well prepared with water, food to spare, blankets, car batteries for lighting and a fan, tools, and a ladder.

The projected life of Hubble batteries has been extended. We used to say we thought they were good until 2008-2009. Now we're thinking 2010. We think Hubble will remain serviceable until well into 2010based on latest projections and test data we have.

When we lost power to that whole computer room, the UPS didn't kick in like it should. Apparently, the batteries in the UPS systems were not sufficiently strong enough.

These $100,000 UPS systems aren't performing as they should, ... The total number of batteries cost probably in the range of $7,000

It was a little tight for our 6-foot engineer, who was sitting in the passenger seat during the driving. And you should know that the rear seats don't fold down because that is where the high-voltage batteries are placed.

We're taking our experience with Delphi and working with these materials to make batteries perform better than we've ever seen. Who would have thought?

After a hard day's of work,the night gives us an opportunity to take rest and relax. Thus, our batteries are re-charged and we are ready for the challenges of the next day.

Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.

Field researchers, for example, have to carry many replacement batteries to power their equipment, which take up a lot of weight and space in the pack. The Suspended-Load Backpack could help anyone with a need for power on the go, including researchers, soldiers, disaster relief workers or someone just looking to keep a mobile phone charged during a long trek.

Do you remember that woman from Batteries Not Included, and Driving Miss Daisy? What's her name? Jessica Tandy. Idol. I love that woman. Her bio totally made me cry. That's dedication and that's passion. She's amazing, and I love her for everything she's done.

Now it's simply a matter of designing the other components, and we'll be able to form batteries by simply pouring all the ingredients together and letting them self-assemble. Plus we can make them at room temperature in very safe conditions, instead of the high temperatures and dangers usually associated with battery production.

A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.

Sometimes batteries are discarded off of bridges, containers that have different household chemicals in it or oils or petroleum products, you get some of those.

The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.

We didn't experience any data loss because we reverted to one of our backup tapes to restore our operating systems. The university is working on replacing the batteries as we speak and it should take care of all of our immediate power problems.

This is not the first time that we've seen overheating batteries or power supplies. It seems that the attention that should be paid to these details is not paid.

I had so much on my mind before the Olympics, and I needed some time to recharge my batteries and have some fun while I can. I gained a lot of confidence at the Olympics, and I'm feeling strong.

In recent years, America's wealthiest man has begun to tackle energy issues in a major way, investing millions in everything from high-capacity batteries to machines that can scrub carbon dioxide out of the air. With a personal fortune of $50 billion, Gates has the resources to give his favorite solutions a major boost.

In the last 96 hours, we have shipped 440,000 sheets of plywood into the west coast of Florida, 30,000 generators, 1.2 million batteries and 150 truckloads of flashlights. Those are some of the items that are just flying off the shelves right now.

Smoke alarms have been around a long enough time that most people know to evacuate immediately when they hear one. Unfortunately, people are prone to forget that the batteries in smoke alarms need changing at least once a year and the smoke alarm itself should be replaced every 10 years.

A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven't found one yet.

Tampa is the team we have to focus on. They're a great team and they are not going to give us anything. We have a day off Sunday an we'll recharge the batteries for a big game Monday night.

The batteries went low. He simply wasn't able to make effective use of it.

Daisy can make about five miles with fully charged batteries, then her cute little rear end must be turned to the sun for 'refueling,' ... She does have a standby generator to run her many decorative 110-volt lights and keep her batteries charged at night when her bottom goes cold.

Consumers benefit from the conventional advantages of flash memory, including the fact that the device does not require batteries or an external power supply. However, we have now introduced even greater storage capacity and a reliable, secure means of storing and sharing everything from data files right through to music and graphics.

THE INTERNATIONAL cricket calendar shouldn't be so packed with action that it drives spectators away. Also, there should be enough space between cricket events to help players recharge their batteries - not just physically but mentally, too.

That's driven principally by the gyros. And right now, we're saying we think we're good until the middle of 2008, ... Hubble will still be worth servicing as long as the batteries hold out.

It's hard for people to understand what happened to me, how my dream was shattered, ... It hurts a lot, and it's a wound that's going to take some time to heal. It's frustrating because you know this is what you like to do. But sometimes, you need time to think things out, recharge your batteries and start all over.

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

There was a rumor that I was dead. I happened to be off work that day and I had a beeper and the batteries had died, so I was just shopping and looking round book stores. People were frantically trying to get in touch with me and people were calling hospitals and the news people were calling my agent trying to see if it was true.

The guys on the Interstate Batteries Chevrolet did a good job today. We just worked on race setup in the first practice, and then we worked n qualifying setup in the second practice, so I am pretty happy with our efforts.

Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries.

It's a long season. In order to succeed you've got to be able to recharge your batteries and bounce back as quick as possible whether you win or lose.

It means we can play with our batteries fully charged. We have rested all (northern) summer, worked well in pre-season and now we have all our strength to play at full pace.

They had this huge, enormous bank of batteries and just ran them into the ground, ... I think it's against the spirit of the competition, but I don't want to sound like a sore sport. ... In retrospect I wouldn't have done anything different.

They got into the parking garage at Tulane and they were stealing car batteries and radios, vandalizing vehicles.

We're going to try to carry them for the first eight, 10 days and try to give them as much rest as possible. Hopefully, they'll be able to recharge their batteries and help us down the stretch.

We want to develop a battery that has a graceful failure - meaning that if it's damaged, it won't cause other problems. We have to understand how batteries fail and why they fail.