Top 199 Grid Quotes & Sayings

A reliable electric grid is absolutely necessary to provide drinking water. You have to have the electricity.

Grid systems in graphic design

When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.

We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.

We're a superpower with a Third World grid.

I find great satisfaction in the rigorous structure of the grid, but I like the organic on the grid so that there's a combination of structure and chaos.

I would hate to see the championship decided on grid penalties.

When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, 'This is my vision.'

To be off the grid is to be disconnected from most of America's infrastructure without having to cross any border.

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.

Nuclear plants are part of the backbone of our electric grid. They are reliable, they are clean.

The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.

I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

We've been having a lot of hearings lately about the reliability of the grid and the need for more distributive generation. We can be a leader of that here in Connecticut.

OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music.

And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.

Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck.

Every racing driver in the world dreams of making it to F1, there's only 22 spots on the grid.

The incredible processing power of Tegra X1 enables us to bring Doom 3: BFG to Android and we’re excited by the possibilities that GRID is bringing to gaming.

I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.

A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.

Farming, from an outside perspective, can be viewed as a romantic, free and off-the-grid life, but the constant work of it means a routine you must follow or everyone dies.

Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that's shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them.

The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropiate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice.

My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.

Energy consumption has to be managed by an intelligent grid when it comes to highly populated areas. Smart-grid technologies allow for the integration of renewable energy into the grid as well as energy from distributed sources.

When you only qualify in 18th position, you have to take your chance off the grid.

Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.

Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

Rock & roll doesn't belong on a grid. It belongs on a pulse - a natural pulse.

China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering around the edge, South Korea is involved, and Iran is an associate member of some kind. If the Middle East oil resources around the Gulf, which are the main ones in the world, if they link up to the Asian grid, the United States is really a second-rate power. A lot is at stake in not withdrawing from Iraq.

I can't inject renewables into a grid that doesn't have base load.

I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

I'm the most ripped guy on the grid, let's just say that.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

Pep Guardiola was technically one of the best coaches, a tremendous enrichment. But I had the feeling that he thinks only in the grid and leaves out the people and the outside.

I'm a fighter, I'm a winner, and I'm not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.'

Thanks to policies mandating clean energy development, California's electric grid is one of the least carbon-intensive in the world.

It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.

I like to smile a lot before going in the car. I make jokes, even on the grid, and then I can still manage to focus when it counts.

No psychological grid works, because if you try to place every personality in one particular grid then you'd need about 4 billion grids because we are all so unique.

The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.

The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered. Reality is the original Rorschach. Verily! So much for all that.

You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid.

There was very little opportunity to carry on in Formula 1. My goal was to get on to the starting grid and that didn't look achievable.

Photovoltaics are a great technology for certain applications, and, in fact, we invest in photovoltaic technologies. But they're not good substitutes for grid electricity.

Oil companies have gas stations. There's this whole huge structure that is about finding a new liquid for the tank. And the idea that maybe there shouldn't be a liquid, that maybe the best is an electrical grid, a sustainably powered electrical grid that we all plug into, that doesn't sit well with oil companies.

Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

I'm very confident about being on the grid in Australia in 2003.

A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed.

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

Don't be governed by the grid, govern the grid. A grid is like a lion cage - if the trainer stays too long it gets eaten up. You have to know when to leave the cage - you have to know when to leave the grid.

Everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

I'd like to live off-grid.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.