Famous Quotes & Sayings

Back when the EPA proposed phasing out ozone-depleting CFCs, the chemical industry howled that refrigerators would fail in America's supermarkets, hospitals and schools.

Ross Perot

That war damaged over 100,000 people -- they're damaged from chemical weapons, ... This administration for the last eight years has let those men rot.

What's already happening in the pulp-and-paper sector is very quickly about to happen in the steel sector. The next sector will be the chemical sector.

We want to go in and fill in the gaps. The whole purpose is to be prepared for another storm or a chemical explosion. This is more preventive than anything else.

Suzanne Somers

Think about it - just getting rid of the fat doesn't get rid of the toxins, which are reabsorbed into your body. This creates a vicious cycle. Losing weight without learning to eliminate chemicals is like a merry-go-round. And it's why dieting doesn't work.

The water was unspeakable. Just unspeakable. There was just a sheen of chemicals on top and sewage, decomposing everything.

You have a lot of different chemicals out there and you test for 10 of them? What about the other 90,000? Does this mean the other ones are not there? I can't tell you if it's safe because I don't know what's in it.

Johannes Stark

Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions.

There's just a whole smorgasbord of chemicals that are getting in the water.

Richard Engel

Israel specifically does not want Syria to hand over weapons, chemical or conventional, to Hezbollah.

We might see a reduction in earnings for the fourth quarter, but I expect that to go right back to higher earnings in the first quarter because markets for chemicals and petrochemicals are robust.

There are a lot more variables now. There is a need now to document chemical usage, stewardship, a whole range of issues.

Jean-Marie Lehn

Supramolecular chemistry is the chemistry of the intermolecular bond, covering the structures and functions of the entities formed by association of two or more chemical species.

This is just a chemical reaction, not an improvised explosive device.

Donald A. Wollheim

Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The whole timetable of our conquest of the planets in our solar system would be tremendously speeded up, from hot Mercury all the way out to frigid Pluto.

It's sort of a critical ingredient. It's like when you mix eight or 10 chemicals and nothing happens. Then you drop this in and all of a sudden, boom, you get an explosion.

Hunter S. Thompson

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

They have not been responsible. There was a long track record in these companies of knowing that these chemicals could pose risks.

If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.

In this traditional approach, there is no chemical information being transferred in any way.

In round numbers, the destruction of the Libyan chemical weapons capabilities is going to be $100m.

In short, chemistry and chemical engineering contribute in critical ways to the economic strength, security, and well being of the nation.

I think different games have a different chemical release in your brain as far as reward goes. I like making puzzle games, just because I know I'm kinda good at it, and they really are superfun to work on.

Bobby Lee

I don't think there have been three years in a row that we haven't been hit by something, whether it be a freeze, a flood, a hurricane, a drought or chemical problems.

If citizens take a look at an officer's duty belt, which includes firearms, batons, chemical sprays ... they will clearly see that Taser technology is a more humane and safer alternative for use-of-force options.

Richard Butler

I could have been in a position to report to the (U.N.) Security Council the end or very near end of the missile and chemical weapons files.

Chemical exposure can heighten and quicken other illnesses and make them more acute.

Brian Lamb

Chemical engineers aren't really cool. People enjoy what they study and want to do something cool with it.

Chemical defoliation is a concept. I'm not sure it's a reality.

Childbirth is a miracle. No, it's not. . . . It's a chemical reaction, that's all.

Brad Johnson

Homeowners and residents will not be able to find information about chemicals that are being released in their communities.

Michael Shannon

Children are being exposed to large amounts of pesticides daily throughout their diet -- cumulatively, over the first 5, 10, 15, 20 years of their lives, when they are trying to have their brains, their kidneys, and their liver become perfectly functioning organs, ... These chemicals can interrupt this process.

If there are all these different kinds of bacteria, there must be all kinds of chemicals that they're making.