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I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. -- Steven Wright
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. -- Bernard Manning
The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better. -- Nathan Myhrvold
It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well. -- Thomas Dolby
I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.' -- Demetri Martin
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. -- Erma Bombeck
Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die. -- Demetri Martin
My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me. -- Ed Balls
We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it -- Arianna Huffington
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running. -- Bill Watterson
We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics. -- David Milne
Waking up to you is like... presents on Christmas morning." His mouth curved. "For your convenience, I'm already unwrapped. Batteries not required. -- Sylvia Day
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function -- Donald A. Norman
Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off. -- Tommy Cooper
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! -- Agnes Repplier
The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low -- Parker Stevenson
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race. -- Oprah Winfrey
I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldnt get batteries. I wasnt trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music. -- Schoolboy Q
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. -- Stephen King
Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times. -- Rem Koolhaas
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. -- Robert Rauschenberg
She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day. -- Jam Master Jay
I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it. -- Marc Jacobs
The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery. -- Ernie Pyle
Reading allows me to recharge my batteries. -- Rahul Dravid
My friends always joke that I run on batteries. -- Alexander Wang
I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions. -- Bikram Choudhury
The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries. -- Elon Musk
Bora Bora is peaceful and quiet, but fun, so full of cool activities and more; spiritual to the core, and you leave with fully recharged batteries. -- Gilles Marini
I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music. -- Schoolboy Q
I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly. -- Rupert Friend
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. -- Jose Rizal
Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries. -- Wayne Dyer
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. -- Dolph Lundgren
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. -- Hod Lipson
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. -- James Longstreet
When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense. -- Alanis Morissette
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. -- Bill Gates
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. -- Bob Inglis
You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks. -- Ben Katchor
Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read. -- Wayne Swan
The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped up my batteries... I'm constantly playing to a demographically diverse audience... one generation is driven by nostalgia, the next by curiosity. And that's why I have no plans to retire. -- Gene Pitney
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. -- Jeff Goodell
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. -- Carrie Underwood
Books dont need batteries -- Nadine Gordimer
What do batteries run on? -- Steven Wright
You have to recharge your batteries. -- Tenzin Palmo
How come everything I need always comes with batteries? -- John Mayer
Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell. -- Tom Robbins
My mom gave me life, so I gave her batteries. AA batteries. -- Jarod Kintz
If you don't stay in some days, you can't recharge your batteries. -- Quentin Crisp
Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries. -- Jean Kerr
For Christmas the just came out with a battery-operated battery. But the batteries aren't included. -- Milton Berle
I took the batteries out my mysticism / â?¨And put them in my thinking cap -- Alex Turner
It's like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else's story. -- Margaret Cho
I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.... -- David Stockman
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet. -- Bill Veeck
Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage. -- Robin Sloan
An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries. -- James Dean
Like a pair of dead batteries, I felt energized. Love is the light in my Can of Darkness. -- Jarod Kintz
That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required. -- Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries. -- Ray Comfort
I went to the hardware store to buy some batteries, but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again. -- Steven Wright
Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery. -- Napoleon Hill
I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively. -- Zachary Levi
From my point of view, it is better to take the chance, having had nine jobs in 10 years, to recharge my batteries -- John Richard Reid
Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak. -- Dan Stevens
He just got in the car, but the batteries dead. So he asks to use the phone and she gives him some head. -- Frank Zappa
Ewan McGregor and I had very similar first-time light sabre experiences. We both burned ourselves! These things are hot - they're full of batteries! -- Hayden Christensen
I got a vibrator that needed two nine volt batteries. What am I - R2D2? I don't know what to do with that. -- Chelsea Handler
People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull. -- Donald Sadoway
I had a date last night with my boyfriend on batteries. What does a girl have to do to get laid by a real penis? -- Sandi Lynn
As for the age of electronics, Selena, I really don't want to get personal with something that comes with a warning label and batteries. (Grace) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again. -- Mia Wasikowska
Call me crazy but I imagine a world where we smile when we have low batteries, because that will mean we're one bar closer to humanity. -- Prince Ea
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. -- Norman Rockwell
The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low. -- Parker Stevenson
In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries? -- Quentin Crisp
Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries. -- Saul Williams
She had five tapes from him now - which meant, if her batteries lasted, she had four hundred and fifty minutes to spend with Park in her head, holding his hand. -- Rainbow Rowell
They run off eckeltricity, do they?" he said knowledgeably. "Ah yes, I can see the plugs. I collect plugs," he added to Uncle Vernon. "And batteries. Got a large collection of batteries. -- J. K. Rowling
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. -- Stephen Furst
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. -- John Bigelow
I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries. -- Grace Kelly
I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain. -- Thomas Jefferson
I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results. -- Elizabeth Zimmermann
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. -- Barton Gellman

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