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Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

—George Gershwin, 1933

Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

—John Morley, 1872

Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

—Germaine Greer, 1970

Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.

—Peter Hitchcock, 2010

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

—Walter Pater, 1873

The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

—Bertrand Russell, 1938

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902

There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

—Rachel Field, 1939

The brightest light burns the quickest.

—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900

If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.

—Charles Dickens, 1865

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965

At the start there’s always energy.

—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006