Tom Burke Quotations

If this is just a variation of the millions of ideas already out there, no one is going to be interested. There are too many calendars chasing too little retail space. There's going to be fallout in the industry.

I think it's the code of the streets. The district attorney may want to imply it's our clients (intimidating people). ... Clearly, intimidation goes around because the two people we put on today also went south.

Our game plan was to come in and run our offense because we knew what we could do against them.

Will professional sales reps take the time to represent a guy with three calendars? Probably not. Will Barnes & Noble give him an appointment? Probably not.

The passing of this threshold is of the most enormous significance. It means we have actually entered a new era - the era of dangerous climate change. We have passed the point where we can be confident of staying below the 2 degree rise set as the threshold for danger. What this tells us is that we have already reached the point where our children can no longer count on a safe climate.

There could be a dramatic change in the going between now and the race. We had 6mm of rain overnight, and it's still raining heavily with between 20mm and 30mm forecast. It could well be yielding by Saturday afternoon.

There could be a dramatic change in the going between now and the race, ... We had 6mm of rain overnight, and it's still raining heavily with between 20mm and 30mm forecast. It could well be yielding by Saturday afternoon.

There seems to be a lot of eating, wine drinking and self-introspection going on. Those books are doing very well.

They can set up camp and cook for themselves. Knowing their stuff will be there when they come home, it's a huge step by the city and it's about time.

In the late '70s, people were still getting their calendars from their insurance agent or dry cleaner. This product didn't exist back then. Now it's gigantic.

If I could find the words. I don't know if there is a word. I can't . . . All I can say is that this one scene, right now, will be in my head for the rest of my life.

The thing about filming is that it can be the most banal experience because it's slow and there's a lot of waiting around.

The security of people and nations rests on four pillars - food, energy, water and climate. They are all closely related, and all under increasing stress

A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate