Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

There are many theories about the best way to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere - some are ludicrous, others are at least worth study. The most commonly discussed plan is to lace the sky with reflective chemicals.

Armin van Buuren

I think I prefer producing a little more than DJing because you have more freedom, you can make anything you want; it doesn't necessarily have to be four to the floor. You can go more with your mood, or the atmosphere that you're in.

Bahman Ghobadi

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

Kofi Annan

This will be our first encounter, ... I have no idea what sort of atmosphere it's going to be, what he is like, how he reacts. Obviously, this is going to be a very difficult discussion. It is an issue that has persisted for 10 years.

This was an exciting game, a good game to watch. The atmosphere here is always great when the gym is packed. How could you not be fired up to go out and play hard?

This was a great win for us. It's tough to be able to come in here with this team and keep the streak alive. KU is a great team and this is a tough atmosphere to play in, but we just came with great intensity and focus and we got the job done.

The physical part is fairly easy, but many of us take ourselves out of the race by getting overly stimulated. Relax, enjoy the day, the atmosphere and remember it's a celebration of what we enjoy doing.

David Attenborough

There are a multitude of things that the individual can do. There is the present debate going on about petrol, for instance. The fact is that we are poisoning the atmosphere and the less fumes we put in it, the better. And we are using up our fossil fuels.

Flip Saunders

When you get in this place, there are 22,000 people and we've got the best atmosphere that you could have in an NBA arena. They get fired up and it's fun to play.

We love to dance. (So far) it's been a great, great time ... the atmosphere is top quality.

We're not negotiating this in the atmosphere the NHL was in, with teams going out of business. We know what the revenue growth is.

We think that in a dark, smoke-filled atmosphere that this will go a long way to ensuring the successful evacuation of the mine.

This (tournament) is as exciting as it gets. This kind of atmosphere is what you play for.

We don't want to be energizing anything if it's in an atmosphere with combustible gases.

The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.

Doris Lessing

The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war.

Quentin Blake

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

Both teams know that they were a second shot or rebound away from winning the whole thing, so there will be a lot of energy in this game. Barton will be playing after our game, so the atmosphere in that evening set of games will be really intense.

A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind. He will, and does, hover in the still, soft atmosphere of early autumn, when the gossamer falls in showers, coming straight down as if it were raining silk.

We have these trails of electrons left behind, and the wind in the upper atmosphere causes them to drift. It pushes them one direction or another. We can measure the speed at which those electrons are drifting and infer the wind speed.

We have the offensive capability to break any game open. We knew it was going to be tough tonight. Obviously they wanted to win here, and I think it was a moral victory for us, keeping a tie and going to RFK because RFK is tough. It will be a great atmosphere and we will be ready.

John Turner

We have the classic global warming signal. It is like the blanket on the bed: When we wrap the Earth with a blanket of greenhouse gases... we trap heat under it at the expense of the atmosphere above, which then cools.

My colleagues and I want to start people thinking about the phytoplankton in the ocean and the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as an evolutionary problem in the context of the organisms that are doing the cycling. We think that's a big factor in climate regulation,

We have our hands full. It makes it tougher, no doubt about it. It's going to be a home atmosphere for Florida. We're going to be in a hostile environment. We have to do our best to keep the fans as quiet as possible.

When you're doing a network show in the States, you're just a slave to the ratings. There's so much money invested that there's this pervasive atmosphere of fear and anxiety. Every morning after an episode of your show airs, everyone is fixated on the numbers to try and determine how the show did.

Jamie Dixon

We had four good games up there. We got a lot of good things out of it. A lot of guys got some good, big-game experience in a hostile atmosphere similar to what we'll face in the NCAA tournament. We got better last week. That's the biggest advantage.

We had tremendous fan support and the atmosphere during the game was exciting. The team was ready to play and gave it their all.

Kyle Lowry

We had to use a lot of hand signals. ... This is the kind of atmosphere we practice for - the toughest situations, the toughest arenas.

We have to keep in mind that there was an explosion that consumed oxygen, that other contaminants are present in the atmosphere inside the mine, and that the rescue effort is being done carefully to ensure there is not another explosion.

Usually with blocking patterns, it's a week, maybe two at the outside. The next time the atmosphere goes into the whole block, which could be later this year, the low could be way over the western Pacific or over the Mainland so we won't get wet. (In March 2006), it was kind of like being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

With the earth's atmosphere quite clear at the moment, those with a good view will see the moon brick-red, perhaps with a tinge of blue,

We put in extra bleachers behind the baskets and we still had a lot of people standing. It was a great atmosphere for a high school basketball game. We just needed a couple of 6-8 guys.

We hope the experience of hosting last year helps a little this year. It's a different atmosphere and a different week leading up to the game.