#batter

My friends always joke that I run on batteries. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#batteries #friends #i #joke #run

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#car #like #mind #off #process

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#better #down #likes #misfortune #much

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#ball game #baseball #baseball game #batter #big

The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#been #died #erase #eventually #face

Striking out batters was easy. ↗

— George Herman

#easy #out #striking

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#bombed #britain #continental #derived #distrust

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

#better #big #breakthrough #cells #competitors

In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

#bmw #equipment #everyone #fact #famous

What's the big deal with Bejamin Frankin, anyway? I mean, so the guy invented electricity or whatever. That was hundreds of years ago." He didn't invent electricity," Amy said, trying not to sound too annoyed."He discovered that lightning was the same stuff as electicity. He invented lightning rods to protect buildings and experimented with batteries and-" I do that. Have you ever put one on your tounge? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#batteries #dan #experience