#battery

Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end. ↗

— Henry Villard

#battery #brigade #came #clock #confusion

I could sell used battery acid and make it fly. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#battery #could #fly #i #make

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

#arrested #battery #charged #drinking #eating

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

#battery #beautiful #building #cheap #contradictory

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

#american #bare #battery #been #brown

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

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

#check #computer #e-mail #getting #gone

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

#around #back #battery #carrying #cell

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

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#battery #field #thousand #worth

This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know? ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#asleep #away #battery #bone #cut