Words matter. These are the best Blackout Quotes from famous people such as Paul Gillmor, Kamisese Mara, Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia, Max Cavalera, Scott Rogowsky, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.
I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.
To avoid a blackout, electricity generating companies must lower generation in line with low demand.
I always think of the ‘Schizophrenia’ album as being like the cover of the Scorpions’ ‘Blackout.’ It’s got this guy breaking out of the glass, but he’s got a straightjacket on. I think it’s a bit of ‘Blackout’ mixed with a little bit of ‘A Clockwork Orange.’
I am a very bad sleeper. There are lots of times when I’m trying to fall asleep at someone’s place, and if they don’t have blackout curtains, I am waking up with any amount of sunlight.
I was in New York City for September 11th, and I was there for the 2003 blackout. I think in hindsight, you get a real perspective as to how unique those moments of crisis are in a place like New York City.
I was in New York when they had the massive blackout – all of Manhattan blacked out. It was a year or two after 9/11, it was pre-smartphones, and everyone thought it was a terror attack. It was like the end of the world.
The first ‘Blackout!’ just started out with us doing the first song, ‘How High’ – I guess it was ‘How High’ – and then it just took off from there.
In fact, there is an academic blackout about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of communism and socialism.
I live on the ground floor, so I have these lacy curtains during the day and then as soon as it gets dark, I’m like, ‘Blackout blinds! Shutters!’ I like being more private.
No one drives through life with blackout windows; most of us are affected, in some way or another, by the love and hate we encounter in others.
I can just remember the blitz of Manchester, or perhaps my father’s tales about the blitz of Manchester. I can remember the blackout, the powdered eggs, and the gas masks. But I think no British person should pretend that being resident in England could count as being in the thick of the action.
I worked on live studio drama, which was one weird aberration in the 1980s. I worked on the ‘Battle of Waterloo,’ and my job was to reload the Brown Bess muskets – the only time the audience realised it was live was when somebody leant on a button and plunged the whole studio into blackout.
The physical evidence does not change because of public pressure or personal agenda. Physical evidence does not look away as events unfold nor does it blackout or add to memory. It remains constant and is a solid foundation upon which cases are built.
The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
From a reality perspective, I’m sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don’t know what is.
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
