Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Ferneyhough

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

Vandana Shiva

When it comes to owning the seed for collecting royalties, the GMO companies say, 'it's mine.' But when it comes to contamination, cross-pollination, health problems, the response is we're not liable.

E. O. Wilson

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

Annalee Newitz

GMO agriculture will probably save the world in this century. But in the developed world, where few people are haunted by the specter of famine, people are free to fetishize heirloom tomatoes and worry about the provenance of what sits on their dinner tables.

Bruce Kent

Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.

Dennis Kucinich

The FDA has received over a million comments from citizens demanding labeling of GMOs. 90 percent of Americans agree. So, why no labeling?

Edward Forbes

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.

Bill Gates

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

Jeremy Rifkin

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

B. F. Skinner

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

James Johnston

I think Landco will come up with something that's very palatable in an environmental sense, but to me any form of development is out of the question.

Jose Gasset

I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Zac Goldsmith

'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

Zhou Shengxian

If in the past, in terms of environmental protection, we were very passive ... now there has been a U-turn.

Gisele Bundchen

I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.

Michael Town

From an environmental perspective, we should be responsible for our own waste.

Gloria Bergquist

I think it's an overall trend that environmental standards and safety standards are getting tighter and tighter. When you have an event like this (Firestone recall), that raises sensitivity about getting the safest vehicle possible.

Woody Harrelson

Bur I think all the environmental groups have to focus on at least one main issue together. That's the move we need to do right now.

Jim Gaffigan

Besides hot pockets keeps introducing new products every 10 minutes so I always have new stuff on the topic.

Jeaniene Frost

If you introduce yourself to anyone as Mrs. Dracula, I'll bite you in a manner you won't enjoy.

Oriana Fallaci

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

Trevor Dunn

If I can introduce someone to something new, as is constantly happening to me, then I am elated

Wayne White

It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.

Vartan Gregorian

Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.