Energy Quotes

"Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs"

"From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band"

Brian May, Musician

"Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy"

Brian Eno, Musician

"Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy"

Bjork, Musician

"We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"I really enjoyed being Peppy Miller. She was an amazing character and her energy followed me everywhere. When I talk about her I want to be her again"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog"

Jean Dujardin, Actor

"I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring"

Jean Dujardin, Actor

"The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer"

Olivier Martinez, Actor

"The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity"

Lewis Mumford, Sociologist

"It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else"

Lawrence Durrell, Writer

"My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out"

Timothy Leary, Educator

"Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy"

Anthony Burgess, Novelist

"Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has"

Will Smith, Actor

"I'm a big believer in energy and vibes. I think the energy you put out into the world, and the energy you surround yourself with, shapes your reality"

Ariana Grande, Actress

"I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity for the children and also manage to do my best at work"

Kiri Te Kanawa, Musician

"I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective"

Joe Barton, Politician

"The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm"

Peter Agre, Scientist

"The provisions contained in this plan will ensure that the United States has the infrastructure necessary to meet energy needs through future decades, easing dependence on unpredictable foreign oil markets, and creating thousands of new jobs for American workers"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans"

Lane Evans, Politician

"But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time"

Ice Cube, Musician

"While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation's energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as 'off limits,' and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment"

Ken Salazar, Politician

"Wealth flows from energy and ideas"

William Feather, Author

"Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you"

Ted Nugent, Musician

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