Quotes on Energy

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

Author: Kathy Acker

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

Author: James Allen

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

Author: Steve Allen

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.

Author: Tom Allen

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

Author: Francesca Annis

I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.

Author: Roy Ayers

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

Author: James Baker

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Author: Hosea Ballou

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.

Author: Javier Bardem

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.

Author: Gregory Bateson

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.

Author: Shelley Berkley

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

Author: Henry Bessemer

Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.

Author: Judy Biggert

I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.

Author: Jacqueline Bisset

On energy, we should be exploring for domestic sources of energy.

Author: Marsha Blackburn

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.

Author: Sherwood Boehlert

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.

Author: Tommy Bolt

With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial then ever that we take steps to diversify our energy sources and reduce our dependency on foreign oil.

Author: Mary Bono

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Author: William Book

In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

Author: Walther Bothe

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

Author: John Bradshaw

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?

Author: David Brower

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.

Author: David Brower

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.

Author: David Brower

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.

Author: David Brower

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Author: Warren Buffett

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Author: Lois Bujold

If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.

Author: Herman Cain

We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.

Author: Silvia Cartwright

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

Author: Willa Cather

There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.

Author: Vinton Cerf

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Author: Steve Chabot

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.

Author: William Channing

Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.

Author: Leroy Chiao

Taking risks gives me energy.

Author: Jay Chiat

In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.

Author: Helena Christensen

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

Author: Diane Cilento

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

Author: William Clinton

It takes a lot of energy to teach.

Author: Dabney Coleman

When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.

Author: Dane Cook

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.

Author: Eric Cornell

I've always stayed pretty fit. I felt I needed to give myself energy by exercising and things like that.

Author: Caroline Corr

When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

Author: Yvonne Craig

Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves.

Author: Mitch Daniels

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

Author: Mitch Daniels

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

Author: Larry David

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

Author: Gray Davis

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

Author: Robin Day

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry.

Author: Rosa DeLauro

The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies.

Author: Rosa DeLauro

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Author: Annie Dillard

I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy.

Author: Mike Ditka

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.

Author: Carol Duffy

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.

Author: Lawrence Durrell

I had bags of energy as a kid.

Author: Christopher Eccleston

Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.

Author: John Edward

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately.

Author: John Edward

I don't look at this as a religious based thing. To me this is energy based.

Author: John Edward

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Author: Albert Einstein

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

Author: Duke Ellington

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

Author: William Feather

A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

Author: Mark Foley

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

Author: Thomas Friedman

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

Author: Eva Gabor

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

Author: Eva Gabor

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.

Author: Victor Garber

Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.

Author: Andy Goldsworthy

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

Author: Al Gore

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

Author: Lindsey Graham

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

Author: Sheilah Graham

France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.

Author: Wilson Greatbatch

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

Author: Stanislav Grof

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

Author: Albert Gyorgyi

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

Author: Albert Gyorgyi

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

Author: Edward Hall

When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.

Author: Dan Hawkins

The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.

Author: Victor Hess

We waste an awful lot of energy as a Nation through inefficient use of energy.

Author: Chris Hollen

If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.

Author: John Holt, Jr.

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

Author: Edward Hopper

What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.

Author: David Houston

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

Author: Jane Hull

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

Author: Isabelle Huppert

Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods.

Author: Jay Inslee

The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems.

Author: Bobby Jindal

We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

Author: Bobby Jindal

Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast.

Author: Bobby Jindal

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

Author: Dwayne Johnson

High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.

Author: Michael Keaton

Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef.

Author: Thomas Keller

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Author: Walt Kelly

It's always been an ebb and flow of interest and energy.

Author: Michael Kennedy

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

Author: Ken Kesey

I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.

Author: Carole King

In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.

Author: Walter Kohn

We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.

Author: Frank Langella

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

Author: Joseph Lightfoot

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.

Author: Dan Lipinski

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.

Author: Seth Lloyd

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

Author: Rich Lowry

I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.

Author: Loretta Lynn

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

Author: Robert Mapplethorpe

Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR.

Author: Kenny Marchant

There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR.

Author: Kenny Marchant

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

Author: Henri Matisse

I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write.

Author: Anne McCaffrey

My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.

Author: John McCarthy

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.

Author: John McEnroe

We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest.

Author: Cathy McMorris

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

Author: Cathy McMorris

I miss performing before a live audience - the energy and excitement - there's nothing to compare with it.

Author: Rita Mero

Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that.

Author: Shannon Miller

I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest.

Author: Shannon Miller

Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.

Author: Gretchen Mol

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

Author: Nana Mouskouri

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

Author: Ralph Nader

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.

Author: Ben Nelson

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

Author: Mike Nichols

The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place.

Author: Claude Nicollier

We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

Author: Gale Norton

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.

Author: Ted Nugent

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

Author: Olusegun Obasanjo

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

Author: Barney Oliver

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

Author: Barney Oliver

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.

Author: Barney Oliver

Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population.

Author: John Olver

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.

Author: Alexandra Paul

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Author: Norman Peale

Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.

Author: Rick Perry

I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.

Author: Dana Plato

If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.

Author: Dana Plato

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.

Author: Lee Raymond

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

Author: Lou Reed

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

Author: Charles Richter

For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different relative magnitude rating than using light energy from the middle of the spectrum.

Author: Charles Richter

No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don't complain about things - and I'd just like to be with them when things are good, and hopefully we can win a pennant together.

Author: Frank Robinson

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.

Author: Mark Ruffalo

I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that.

Author: Kurt Russell

It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.

Author: Hjalmar Schacht

The atom was unleashed in 1946, right when all this stuff was occurring. And the bomb's incredible release of energy and light may have signalled somebody in a dimension which is sharing space with us very closely.

Author: Dwight Schultz

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

Author: Donna Shalala

Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel.

Author: Don Sherwood

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

Author: Ron Silver

While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.

Author: Michael Simpson

The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.

Author: Lamar Smith

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

Author: Abdolkarim Soroush

I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.

Author: Terence Stamp

U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy.

Author: Cliff Stearns