Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Morton

We need to reduce the fossil fuels we use and travel we do, but simply saying to people 'don't do that' is not effective. We see this as part of a wider picture - at some stage we will all have individual carbon allowances and our schemes are helping people to get used to the idea that they produce a personal carbon footprint.

David Longanecker

If in some cases car allowances were reported and others were not, it could be a back-office mistake. But if they did something systematically, that could be more of a problem of mismanagement.

Howard Davidowitz

There is a high likelihood of lower prices, ... The department store segment is a supplier's worst nightmare. Department stores demand more allowances from vendors, they want to be able to return inventory if it doesn't sell well. A Federated-May merger could be an even worse scenario for the suppliers.

Andrew Demetriou

Our assessment was that the factors that led to the introduction of the allowances had changed. If Brisbane weren't as successful as they are, I believe the decision would be the same.

Mary Poole

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt

Stavros Dimas

We will be reviewing the functioning of the emissions trading scheme and proposing any necessary changes. A major task will be to check and approve Member States' national allocation plans for emission allowances for the trading period covering 2008-2012.

Mark Klein

The real unknown for generators and for the petrochemical and cement industries is the allocation method that will be used for carbon allowances in phase two from 2008 onwards, the critical period for meeting the Kyoto targets.

Mark Klein

We have gas plants and coal plants. Through different exchanges and bilateral agreements, we have bought carbon allowances to cover our generation position to 2007. There have been some days when we have been buyers of allowances, fewer days when we have been sellers.

Richard Hunter

The report shows that Real Madrid have overtaken Manchester United as the world's biggest-earning football club. However, that is not necessarily to say that they are a more profitable club, since the report makes no allowances for costs or expenditure.

Timothy Noah

Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.

John Rogie

The 24-hour variation suggested that the system was very dynamic and that more than a single measurement was needed to tell us if the carbon dioxide rates were going up, staying the same or going down.

Roger McGuinn

I've got an electric little motorcycle that I go to the supermarket with every day, and it's powered by the solar panels, so it's really got a zero carbon footprint.

Marcus Samuelsson

Going meatless reduces our carbon footprint and helps us lead the way towards climate change.

Roy Blunt

There may be no issue that better illustrates the differences between Republicans and Democrats than energy. Consider it the 'all of the above' strategy for reducing gas prices, versus the 'all pain, no gain' plan for punishing those who emit carbon (like you).

Mike Graham

We have a few injuries in our back line. A couple of our projected starters didn't even play, but the players that went in did a great job. I moved junior midfielder Scott Carbon back to the defense and he played very well. I thought he was the player of the game.

Leigh Morris

We are committed to doing everything we can to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Gregory Benford

Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years.

Allan Zaremberg

I think if you look at most polling, Californians want their taxes on gas to go toward improving the transportation system, not toward something that might marginally improve carbon emissions.

Christian Prudhomme

The 2007 tour will be a modern tale of two cities ... and plans to cement the friendship between our two great capitals.

Ken Simonson

My suspicion is that after the first month it takes effect, you'll see more cement showing up in Arizona.

Robert Evans

Four years ago I had a stroke, I was declared dead and I'm writing a sequel to my book. It's going to be called "The Fat Lady Sang". I heard the fat lady sing and I saw the white light. I woke up in the hospital, then a month ago I put my foot into cement at the Mann's Chinese Theatre.

Ali Karimi

This project is considered to be one of the most important projects in the Kingdom and will fill the gap in the cement manufacturing and export of cement that coincides with consumer consumption,

Simon Winchester

Cement was a relatively new material at that time,

Alice Hyde

Cement sales resumed to customers on Sunday, February 26 after the problem was identified and resolved.

Bob Wagner

We had information, lab tests, showing that cement kiln dust did not leach. Only through time and experience have we learned it does leach. It's a unique substance.

Jeremy Crabtree

It gives (the Rebels) a chance to cement a spot in the top 15. That's an impressive stat considering the struggles that they had on the field.

Ken Simonson

For 2006, I expect to see healthy demand for nonresidential construction but also double-digit price increases for many construction inputs. I expect continuing spot shortages of cement that will push concrete prices higher nationwide.

Wen Jiabao

I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.

Wen Jiabao

It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

Zubin Mehta

I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

John Malone

The pilots understand. It's a critical time period.

David Thewlis

Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.

Noah Baumbach

I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself.

Sergei Lavrov

The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all.

Kristy Curry

That would have been critical to us. It was a gutsy play by her. Thank goodness she was set.

Katherine Harris

We will all remember these times as some of the most critical and defining in our nation's history,

Kurt Barnard

The numbers today are nothing other than big generators of yawns.

Alva Noto

I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.

Todd Engle

Everything from roofs to hurricane panels and hurricane shutters and windows to generators and screen enclosures and on and on.

Gregg Fishman

It was an isolated event. That's not to say it can't happen again. Big power generators and big transmission lines do trip off occasionally.

John Battelle

Just like the VCR opened the film and TV industries to unimaginable new revenue streams, search, RSS and the Internet will do the same for marketers and media companies.

Greg Boyle

Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

Lou Ehrenkrantz

You look for undervalued stocks by looking at industries that have been overlooked.

Sara Sheridan

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.

Harris Miller

Our first priority is the Internet Hippocratic oath: 'First, do no harm,' ... Unlike most lobbyists or industries in this town, we don't come to town with a long to-do list, but with a long don't-do list.

J. Paul Getty

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

Jerry Costello

Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics.

Tracy Lefteroff

Solid levels of investing in traditional industries are being complemented by renewed interest in promising, fast-growing niches.

Terry Hill

There are now 75 industries in franchising and it's growing,

Joseph Lieberman

We have until 2012 to meet Kyoto ... and it doesn't make sense

David Suzuki

Even meeting Kyoto targets barely makes a dent in what we have to achieve.

David Suzuki

If Canada, one of the richest nations in the world, can't meet Kyoto targets, why should China or India give any considerations for meeting the targets?

Al Gore

The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.

Brian Mulroney

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

Eileen Claussen

It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere.

Jacques Chirac

For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.

Jacques Chirac

...the Kyoto Protocol...the first component of an authentic global governance...

Christopher Flavin

The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all over.

Terry Fleck

That was the first place we said there should be a meeting ­ in Minot.

Darcy Tucker

We've had enough closed-door meetings this year. We don't need another one - the score said it all.

Mary Ford

We're really not in a very different place now than we were before. Unfortunately, this meeting really just didn't come to a conclusion.

Dan Rooney

I think they're meeting and there is some progress. But it's not enough, unfortunately.

Amy Poehler

It is completely improvised. We have had no meetings backstage, we have not written anything, and everything you see onstage tonight is being made up on the spot,

Robert Mueller

I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.

Javier Solana

It does not make much sense to have another meeting if there is nothing new to put on the table.

Mike Miller

We'll have a meeting in a month or so before we get started.

Jacques Rogge

Well done and thank you. You have succeeded brilliantly in meeting your challenge. These were truly magnificent Games.

Mike Murphy

We played OK -- I thought we were a little sluggish and methodical on offense in the first half. I thought we got out-hustled in the first half.

Megan Fox

Angelina Jolie was always a Method actress. She'd been nominated for Golden Globes before she ever did 'Tomb Raider.'

Christian Camargo

Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.

Michael Keaton

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

Matt Kuchar

Going to a one-plane swing method has made me a much more consistent player. Even when I'm not on, I never get very far off.

Charles de Gaulle

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

Thomas Gray

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

Thom Mayne

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Russell Smith

Periods of nostalgia are impossible to predict or explain.

Susan Rice

We have come a very long way in a very short period of time,

F. Stone

We need to play three periods tomorrow like we played the first one tonight.

John Clare

We're all in this together for some period of time,

Mahela Jayawardene

We know it is a period that we have to rebuild.

Jessica Brown Findlay

You don't automatically assume everyone will fall for a period drama.

Jessica Szohr

You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.

Holliday Grainger

When I was younger, I was always being told I had a period face, but 'Bel Ami' was my first shot at it.

Sue Stevens

The alternative is you don't retire or you phase into retirement.

Jeff Morrow

We know teams will make a run but it doesn't phase us. Nothing phases them.

Donna Davis

We do want to see Phase I get done.

Lee Meyer

We'll get better, not only defensively, but in all phases of the game.

Larry Neumann

He's a difference-maker in every phase of the game.

Cheri Blauwet

Here, we see it as another phase of life.

Dennis Latta

We're in the exploratory phase right now, but we've been working on this for a long time and think it's a possibility.

Alex Swann

We've done similar things like this before and ultimately we've phased things in and done so in a way that makes it user-friendly for people.

David Guetta

I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.

Jon Burnham

The big unknown in this is the geopolitical situation,

John Gibbons

There a lot of unknowns on this team.

H. P. Lovecraft

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

Patricia Marx

I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.

Gotye

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.

John Boyne

It is possible, you know, to drift off to an unknown world and find happiness there. Maybe even more happiness than you've ever known before.

John Lennon

I am going into an unknown future, but I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope.