“We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.” NeedsMindIdeasMotivationalRunningProcessBrainCarFrontsTelevisionTaughtBatteriesDiversionIdiocyThought Process Author:Bill Watterson
“If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the east-west streets were eddies where, leaf-like, one could turn slow circles from the beginning to the ever shall be, world without end.” IfsWorldEndsLightRunningTurnsStreetsRiversWestEastCirclesCommerceTrafficLeafsBroadwayManhattanBatteries Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel
“Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.” MayIdeasEndsRunningBeliefEnergySourceBatteriesClip Author:J. M. Coetzee
“With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.” BelieveRunningAmericaWiseGenerationsNeededRegardOilChineseGasSubstitutesVehicleElectricElectricityDependenceBatteriesForeign OilElectric Vehicles Author:Aubrey McClendon