Energy Quotes

"In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades"

Gary Miller, Politician

"I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago"

George Porter, Scientist

"Again, racing for me was about energy management"

Frank Shorter, Athlete

"I am bitterly opposed to my country entering the war, but if, notwithstanding my opposition, we do enter it, all of my energy and all of my power will be behind our flag in carrying it on to victory"

George William Norris, Politician

"I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries"

John Cameron

"We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records"

Edie Brickell, Musician

"Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful"

David Del Tredici, Composer

"It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going"

Ernie Banks, Athlete

"Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer"

Jan Schakowsky, Politician

"A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other"

Harvey Fierstein, Actor

"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"

Gregory Bateson, Scientist

"The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared"

Frank Shorter, Athlete

"First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"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"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs"

Gary Busey, Actor

"The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market"

Gary Miller, Politician

"I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer"

Jane D. Hull, Politician

"I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better"

Bob Barker, Actor

"I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that"

George Pataki, Politician

"I've always had way too much energy so I'm always looking for new things to do to channel that energy"

Channing Tatum, Actor

"Taking risks gives me energy"

Jay Chiat, Businessman

"As the economy grows, so will the demand for energy"

Cliff Stearns, Politician

"The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense"

Charles Foster Bass, Politician

"We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries"

Corita Kent, Artist

"While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people"

Dave Reichert, Politician

"Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry"

Charlie Dent, Politician

"At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy"

Hilary Duff, Actress

"We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world"

Bernie Sanders, Politician

"Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly"

Chuck Hagel, Politician

"I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy"

Diana Ross, Actress

"The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"I feel a lot healthier when I'm having sex. Physically. I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. I take vitamins, I work out every day. When I'm having sex, I don't have that"

Alyssa Milano, Actress

"I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

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