Famous Quotes & Sayings

Siouxsie Sioux

I don't care about champagne backstage or anything else - the one thing I need to specify is that I can't have any Arctic drafts on stage.

Dave Gahan

If you ask me who the members of the Rolling Stones or Led Zep or the Clash were, I'd be able to tell you every member. But I couldn't name a single member of Arctic Monkeys.

Kevin Patterson

I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at all times clear that people aren't the dominant fact of a particular geography.

Rebecca Solnit

The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and species extinctions, as well as in the loss of some of the things that make this planet a blue-green jewel, including its specialized habitats from the melting Arctic to bleaching coral reefs.

Bill Meadows

Those who are presenting opening the Arctic as a solution to the world's energy problems are misrepresenting the facts. This is really an intense debate going on. In some ways, it's for the soul of the conservation community.

Tino Reyes

When we were getting pretty close to signing him, he called us from one of his maneuvers. I asked him, 'Where are you guys?' He said, 'Up north.' I said, 'Where up north?' He said, 'The Arctic Circle.' That was different. He e-mailed us a picture from there. He had his parka off.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.

Alex Sosnowski

We've been in a six-week pattern of warm temperatures, which is a normal span. Now, we're entering a new one and it's coming from the Arctic and Alaska.

Kevin Hawkins

No one should be fooled into believing that the slight improvement relative to July indicates a change in trend. Any growth came from heavy discounting, which is not sustainable - especially as retailers' margins are already being squeezed by rising labour, property and energy costs. The underlying position is still weak and unlikely to improve unless and until there are further cuts in interest rates.

Stuart Higgins

We were conned by cunning fraudsters into believing that two people frolicking together on a poor quality film were the Princess of Wales and her former lover James Hewitt.

Leila Janah

I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded.

Marc Falcone

I have a hard time believing they would turn away if the project were to come in at, say $1.3 billion.

Kathleen Sullivan

I have a hard time believing they didn't discuss this.

Joe Kraus

I have a hard time believing that they can buy a company with 2,000 people and make it work. The notion of buying a gigantic company with a lot of cash is a very risky proposition.

Gilles Bisson

I have a hard time believing (police) just did it on their own.

Carlos Fuentes

She's just a dynamic performer. She was unsure if she could still do gymnastics like she used to. This year, I think she's started believing that she can.

Tiffany Tootle

She hasn't had a surgery; we haven't changed the size of the ball; we haven't decreased the distance from the plate to the rubber. It's just been about faith and believing in what she could do.

Peter Fonda

LSD was designed for you to look inside yourself. Quite a liberating experience if you can pull it off.

Jim Kennedy

made a good-faith effort to respond to the questions despite the fact that they were designed more for a partisan purpose than a constitutional one.

Amity Gaige

Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.

Mark Keller

Miss Copley, you're not going to like any of this, ... Your stay is too short. It's designed for punishment. Period.

Todd Spencer

Of course, the licensing process is designed to simply slide as many people through with a minimum of experience and quality.

Andy Weir

My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base.

John Clifford

Needless to say, we are very pleased with these results, ... Our enhanced surveillance program is designed to provide information about the level of prevalence of B.S.E. in the United States, which by any measure is extremely low.

Theo de Raadt

I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.

Steve Owen

From an outsider's perspective I can understand it seems odd to open a new facility while another one is closing. But Red Rock is designed for a state contract.

Elmore Lockley

The prices have gone down because the prices we purchase natural gas have gone down. There also has been increased drilling and increases in storage capacity.

David Pratt

No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric.

Frances Beinecke

Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.

Mike Pastore

We're still drilling holes, but so far nothing.

Kate Beckinsale

I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.

Melinda Pierce

We're surprised that the focus is on more drilling when drilling has shown itself to be a vulnerability. It's misguided to focus on drilling.

Erik Molvar

Drilling multiple oil and gas (wells) would not only wreck the solitude of these remote areas, but would leave man-made scars on the landscape for centuries.

Paul Friel

He's drilling him with all kinds of questions.

Jeff Goodell

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

Richard P. Feynman

We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries - and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?

Dirk Bauermann

Man, he really took over that fourth quarter. His energy was tremendous. That helped us to the win.

Viktor Khristenko

Major projects lead to a variety of reactions in the beginning, but once they are launched the reactions become positive. Infrastructure is a key part of energy security.

R. Robinson

Luckily, we grossly underestimated the money and energy required to refurbish the home and surroundings. With more wisdom, we might have passed!

Danny Grieves

Luther plays with so much energy and he's tenacious on his rebounding. Luther's not a great leaper, but he's a quick leaper.

Helene Lagerberg

Love is like the sun: has its inner energy source that shines on you

Dan Colen

Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

Jorge Zamacona

Lee has exploded. He's exactly the energy the ensemble needed.

Sathya Baba

Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.

Scott Berryessa

Many mistakenly think that equates to a 6 percent salary increase.

Mikko Hypponen

Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.

Mystikal

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

Emma Udwin

From now on, there will be no more payments through the National Palestinian Authority.

Foster Friess

On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

Paul Wolfowitz

If we're not true to our principles, we're not serving our national interest.

Charde Houston

She has two national championships under her belt. She has to be like that.

Mark Souder

If this is a cohesive national policy, it is embarrassing,

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Shinzo Abe

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

Dennis Weaver

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

Dennis Weaver

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

Deng Xiaoping

There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

Edgar Allan Poe

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

Edvard Munch

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

Ben Holmes

If any sector is working right now, it's oil and gas.

Ed Markey

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

Dizzy Dean

It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

George Baker

To produce this oil efficiently and quickly, you need people who've done it before.

Rig Veda

May the truth protect me in all ways.

Mark Davies

Now we know even that remote possibility makes protection cost-efficient.

Aslan Maskhadov

to protect the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Bob Rue

I got to protect my eggs. I've got food, I've got toys, I'm having the time of my life.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

P. J. Harvey

Ideally, you want to protect all of the important pieces, as much as you can.

Daniele Audetto

We are only trying to protect our investments.

Francis G. Slay

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

Eve Ensler

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

Matt Brown

Having American refugees on American soil is heartbreaking,

Jamie Shea

We've prevented Milosevic from using refugees as a weapon to destabilize neighboring countries.

John Dowd

They must be treated lawfully under the refugee convention.

Doug Anderson

It's become increasingly indefensible to have no refugee admissions.

Michael Franti

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

Christopher Hitchens

Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus.

John McCain

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

Marco Rubio

In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.

James Rosenquist

If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.

Hubert Burda

Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.

Sarah Kay

Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and look back and go, 'Oh, that's what this is all about,' and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it.

Jim Crace

The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

MacGyver MacGyver

Using violence isn't the only way to solve a problem.

Michael Gove

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.

Ashwin Sanghi

There is one person who can help solve 'writer's block'. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker.

Ronaldo Myers

(The expansion) is going to help. But it won't solve the situation.

Bryan Whitman

There is no ?silver bullet' to solve this problem.

Aldo Leopold

Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

Theodore Roosevelt

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.

Theodore Roosevelt

The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.

Jim Fowler

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

Rachel Carson

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

Steve Irwin

The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.

Steve Irwin

We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.

Russell Brand

Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone.