Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Herer

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

John Caudwell

In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.

Instead of generating cash, they're burning cash. We are not jumping into Internet stocks at these valuations. I think the Internet sector is going to continue to sink.

CD burning is a problem that is really undermining sales.

Sebastian Junger

Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

Theodore Roosevelt

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

Ramez Naam

Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet. One leads to ecological collapse. The other is a reversion, in many ways, to poverty.

The five solid rocket boosters are burning just fine, sending the New Horizons spacecraft on its way to the very edge of our solar system.

This is a classic Internet company and they will be burning cash like there's no tomorrow. But the deal is programmed to explode on its first day with 3.5 million shares priced between $12 and $14.

Paulo Freire

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

Are the people who are getting tax credits still burning their fields? ... There's nothing in statute that says they couldn't.

As hot as it's been with no rain, anything that hasn't been watered is pretty well dried up by now. I would think people's lawns and gardens are burning up if they haven't been watered. Non-irrigated crops are probably suffering pretty bad. Probably, the fire danger in those areas, of course, is going to be higher.

Harriet Stowe

The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

Right now we get 93 percent of our energy from burning fossil fuels. If all of these projects come on-line that number will be down to around 55 percent.

Jay Johnson

Right now, the fire is contained. The wind has shifted and they've lit a backfire to get the fire burning back on itself.

Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, / That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: / And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

Kevin Parker

The name of the game is smoke. You don't want to smoke up Interstate 95 or smoke out Hilton Head Island. That's possible when you're burning 600 acres.

The municipal solid waste generates power from burning the trash we throw away. The developer still needs to secure a source of fuel for that one.

A friend saw him on fire and came and put him out. That's the only thing that keep the fire from burning all of him.

Someone took my parking space and I just lost it. And I started screaming, not at her but in the car. And my throat was like (makes a burning gesture). I stopped and regrouped and then I got out of the car and screamed at her the right way.

Once you become linked with any government, you become a target of the government that follows it. They go after your factories, your house, your family. You can't have stability if people are running around burning things down every two or three years. It's just impossible.

Once you get hooked on it, you have a burning desire to discover the roots from which you came, so to speak.

Bryan Robson

No (will not be watching Soccer Saturday) that's agony. When the lads go to the monitors and say 'oh there's been a chance just gone' or if I listen to a match on the radio all you are doing is burning up nervous energy for me and I won't be in that frame of mind.

Ian Lowe

Oil and gas are limited resources, ... Wasteful use of these fuels and the burning of coal are the main causes of global warming.

Coal keeps the lights on!' And this year it will also keep the lamp of learning burning for the beneficiaries of Concord's scholarship program.

A lot of people were left holding the burning carcasses of those companies. We've learned a lot in the last few years. The market has become more selective.

a man probably responsible for 50 deaths, the burning of hundreds of homes, destruction of villages and who currently holds several dozen people as hostage.

Rupert Grint

They were just kind of simultaneous - the film ending and the sets being destroyed. I was struck the first time I saw the Great Hall become a big pile of burning rubble and getting scattered around. It's really quite shocking for the fans.

It really reflects misplaced priorities when you can go to jail for a longer time for burning a photograph of someone's dog than for burning a dog. The laws just need to catch up with society's values.

There were some people out there burning the ditches, and it got a little too close to the structure.

Sam Endicott

There may be some burning animals, ... We'll see what happens.

The remaining crews will now be conducting mop up operations and making sure that there are no burning embers or hot spots.