Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane D. Hull

Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.

Bill Maher

It's so easy to demagogue the issue and make someone who speaks out against the internal-combustion engine sound like an insane communist, when the truth is that the internal-combustion engine is the biggest threat to our lives, in terms of what it's doing to our environment and how it's depleting the ozone layer and so forth.

Dean Stockwell

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

Carl Sagan

The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew of deadly perils. But perhaps it really tells of a newfound talent to work together to protect the global environment.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially in the presence of life itself. Among the biomarkers in Earth's atmosphere are ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol sprays, vapor from mineral solvents, escaped coolants from refrigerators and air conditioners, and smog from the burning of fossil fuels. No other way to read that list: sure signs of the absence of intelligence.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't know why a beauty salon would have a cop's hat and the curling irons are not deadly unless they're still plugged in and they're hot. So I'm not quite sure about that. But I don't know who remembers anymore that you can ignite spray cans, plus there aren't really any spray cans anymore 'cause that was destroying the ozone layer. So I'm - actually, I'll have to go with they chased him with the curling irons.

Ken Wilber

Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement in the noosphere about how to proceed with those problems. We cannot rein in industry if we cannot reach mutual understanding and mutual agreement based on a worldcentric moral perspective concerning the global commons. And we reach the worldcentric moral perspective through a difficult and laborious process of interior growth and transcendence.

Ramez Naam

Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions are going to pay for themselves for any given power-plant, say.

Lewis Black

We don't have seasons anymore. You know why? We lost the ozone layer. Well, put it on milk cartons - let's find it!

Chip Roth

We have not arrived at an agreement yet today but we are working on it. The strike deadline tonight is still meaningful, but we have not gotten down enough into the face-to-face negotiations.

Stephen Adams

We have no choice but to invalidate the agreement signed in 2002.

Ron Mercer

We have some agreements with Costco, but we don't have a signed lease agreement.

Hani Durzy

We have pulled it off the site. This listing was being marketed as coming specifically from Angelina Jolie. There was no indication in the listing that she had given agreement to this. We took a look at it pretty quickly and felt it violated our policy on celebrity materials.

Ric Clarson

We have provisions in the agreement that tied to contemplate the 'What Ifs'. If you have another tournament that comes in or one that leaves, can we redirect dollars?

Keisuke Ohmori

We have pretty much won the bid, but we still need to reach a final agreement.

Richard Katz

We've signed the agreement, and I'm waiting for a final copy.

Melinda Johnson

We've signed agreements with all of them. I think they're all pretty much happy campers at this point. When we couldn't give them an answer, it was frustrating for them.

David Teague

We have received very strong feedback from the state that 21 homes in Clyde will be bought out, but we won't have anything official until we get the grant agreement from FEMA later this month.

Charles Stanley

Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

Bret Michaels

A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.

Dave Davies

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

David Sze

For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.

Bryan Singer

Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.

Bryce Dallas Howard

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

Lynsey Addario

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

Eckhart Tolle

The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.

Matt Damon

We have a similar perspective, ... We're total hams.