Energy Quotes

"I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener"

Ben Stiller, Comedian

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues"

Duke Ellington, Musician

"The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so"

Tony Bennett, Musician

"Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"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"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California"

Gray Davis, Politician

"It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see"

Josef Albers, Artist

"But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

"The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist"

Danny Glover, Actor

"I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration"

Victor Garber, Actor

"If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process"

John M. McHugh, Politician

"If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used"

Charles Francis Richter, Scientist

"I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy"

William Scranton, Politician

"Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed"

Joseph Hume, Scientist

"The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less"

Nick Rahall, Politician

"If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy"

Rick Renzi, Politician

"With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"They're the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger"

Gray Davis, Politician

"Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal"

John McEnroe, Athlete

"Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before"

Gray Davis, Politician

"If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible"

John Shadegg, Politician

"Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely"

James Taylor, Musician

"With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity"

Charles Francis Richter, Scientist

"We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil"

Rick Renzi, Politician

"For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan"

John Shadegg, Politician

"It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different"

Brandon Routh, Actor

"As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar"

Rick Renzi, Politician

"There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say"

Latrell Sprewell, Athlete

"You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

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

Cathy McMorris, Politician

"Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

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