Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Potter

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.

Demetri Martin

Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.

Kevin Sorbo

This is our lance. See, you're making me laugh about this now, because there have been a few jokes on the set about what they actually look like. But, see, I personally think they'd be a great toy. So... just batteries aren't included.

We set ourselves a target this morning, we wanted to be 150 ahead. At one stage that looked very attainable. It's always dangerous when you have a batter with the tail enders. The situation was tailor-made for Gilchrist.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

There are still people issues, and some power issues, and the industry is bruised and battered like everybody, ... But it's getting better every hour, and every day.

I would say it's a very typical Imperial Valley swarm. I would tell people, like any earthquake in California, to consider it as a reminder to get the battery and food and water and everything. But I don't think there's a big danger from it.

Kari has carried us on the boards all year. She has improved so much. She put in a lot of time in the off-season. When it comes to the state tournament they just don't call as many fouls, especially off the ball. She's been bruised, battered and bloody. She's a warrior. I love her game.

It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.

I think the gains (in New York) were mostly due to short-covering on battered issues.

Sadaharu Oh

I think the batter was too good for Ishii. It was the eighth inning and the batter came up with a big home run. If I knew he was going to do that, I wouldn't have (put Ishii into the game).

Dick Vermeil

He's going through a battery of tests. Some of these tests aren't just five-minute deals, ... They take sophisticated equipment and sophisticated people to administer. We'll know a lot better tomorrow.

We make our own beer batter for the halibut.

Sean Maloney

We have to be fanatical about power consumption. It's not just about longer battery life, but when you look at rising oil prices, it becomes more and more important.

Michael Hawley

We made substantial progress on several fronts during the first quarter. We generated good sales growth, as double-digit gains for blades and razors and Braun more than offset softness in certain battery markets and a significant unfavorable exchange effect.

Bob Riley

has been beaten and battered the last 24 hours.

He followed them from battered women's shelter to battered women's shelter. That's kind of the worst-case scenario.

I battered the cordons around me/ And cradled my wings on the breeze,/ Then soared to the uttermost reaches/ With rapture, with power, with ease!

Battery life is very high on the list of customers' requirements. The immediate reaction is, 'What took so long?

John Donne

Batter my heart, three personed God; for you / As yet but knock, breathe, shine and seek to mend.

Batteries tend to last about three years and then fail suddenly.

Batteries are a necessary part of hybrid electric-gasoline powered vehicles and someday, when the technology matures, will be part of hybrid electric-hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles.

He had told us that he had left a battery charger on a lawn mower and we checked it out and determined that the cause of the fire started around the lawn mower. It could have been the battery charger being plugged up so long or the battery itself.

People will see systems that can be faster, smaller and quieter with longer battery life and lower electric bills.

Nasser Hussain

One thing I'm not going to do is walk away from this team in their present bruised and battered state and give it to some young lad and say, 'Here, you take them out there,'

He was a multi-millionaire. Wanna know how he made all of his money? He designed the little diagrams that tell which way to put batteries in.

He was a little wild early ? walked the first batter and hit the second ? but from there he did a great job." ()

Donald Sadoway

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

There is a timing mechanism involved. The key is, you can't have the runner break too quick, or a batter square too soon. Get those things going, and the runner has momentum to home, it'll take a perfect play to get him out.

Hod Lipson

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.

Henrik Fisker

A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.

Our pitching was fantastic. They only walked one batter and we had just one error all day ... There's some pretty positive stuff we can take from this.

Our total consolidated earnings were obviously battered by the charges related to our Brazil investments. However, we continue making good progress in streamlining our business portfolio.