#batter

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#battery #field #thousand #worth

Here's the thing about Apple, we complain and they give us more battery life. We complain and they'll give us more stuff. Everything's beta right now. Everything's experimental. They really don't know what people want. ↗

— Sinbad

#apple #battery #beta #complain #everything

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

#because #burned #hardy #i #low

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#battered #bloody #cease #enough #further

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

#batteries #cause #confusion #foreigners #hard

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#electricity #energy #exhaustion #futility #sherlock-holmes

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

#batteries #charge #commence #dawn #early

The same expertise we learned at the autopsy table can be applied to living people who've been shot, battered, or raped. The search for trace evidence is the same. ↗

— Michael Baden

#autopsy #battered #been #evidence #expertise

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#batter #every #great #him #more

I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from. ↗

— Randy Johnson

#batters #i #learned #lot #proud