Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

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

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.'

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.

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.

E. O. Wilson

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

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.

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.

Peter Singer

If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.

Richard Lippes

You'll have increased traffic, lots of light, increased pollution, and all of it 24 hours a day. All of that has to be looked at as a potential environmental consequence.

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.

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?

David Senter

We have a number of conservation and environmental groups that want to take our farm program spending and shift it over to some kind of conservation payment or green payment.

David Wilmot

We are remaining exclusively focused on the oceans. We do not get into social issues, we do not even get into environmental records.

Marshall Curry

I was surprised to see how much the mainstream environmental movement hates the ELF.

David Baker

Because of the type of water it was, there won't be any kind of environmental impact.

Ma Jun

China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.

Jeaniene Frost

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

Jim Gaffigan

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

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.