Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ivy Lee

Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Constance Marie

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

Terry Thornton

The policy now is that an offender's race will not be used as a sole determining factor in housing. Our primary goal is to ensure that racial integration is completed in a manner that maximizes institutional security.

Paul Wolfowitz

The path to complete debt relief has now been cleared,

Rebel Wilson

I studied law at university and was sort of grooming myself to go into that kind of career. I filmed 'The Wedge' while studying, which was very difficult, but I'm proud I completed my degree.

Richard P. Feynman

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

Martin Straka

That was just a complete hockey game. All four lines played well. Plus, we had a good start and that's so important.

Houston Nutt

That was good then. I'm glad they cheered. I wish we would have completed it. I would have stood up and cheered if we completed it.

Rob Judson

That was a tough second half for us. Our screening and passing weren't there, and our shots weren't falling. It's like the second half was a complete reversal of the first.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Irving Ravetch

Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

Gary Bauer

The polls mean virtually nothing, ... We're not tottering on the edge. Each week we're picking up momentum.

John Anastos

The patients are happier, and we can serve more patients. More patients mean more revenues.

David Selby

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Victoria Moran

Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

Nancy Kress

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to (do) better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Bob Stern

I think Harman should be commended for raising so much in the district.

David Richardson

It will be 'Roseanne'-ish in nature, a real woman raising two kids. There won't be any winking at the camera, no double-entendre jokes.

Joe Andrew

This is big and this is important. This is not about raising money, it's about raising interest.

Mark Zandi

Implicitly, ... 'I can keep raising rates, and most homeowners won't suffer.'

Tracy Austin

It's about being with friends and raising money, ... To me, that's most important.

Morgan Freeman

We know its a very clean-burning fuel. It's renewable ... all we need to do is make it available.

Al Gore

The will to act is a renewable resource.

P. J. O'Rourke

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Clint Stretch

But that's not where the revenue comes from,

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Robert Klein

I still think the Legislature has to do the right thing (about the disputed revenue sources).

Brad D. Smith

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Walter Kirn

We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

Robert McGrath

Somehow society shifted and took these things seriously.

Jamie Russell

You have to give Wisconsin credit. I thought they outworked us shift in, shift out.

Ken Wilber

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

Marty Turco

You play it one game, one shift at a time.

Marcel Dionne

There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional.

David Barber

This is a very significant result, and it's not some sort of trend that's going to shift back the other way.

Riley Nelson

Their whole team works hard, which is tough because you can't take a shift off.

George Allen

Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.

Dee Brown

That was what we set out to do, stop Grier.

LaVar Arrington

We can't give up the big play. That's what we do, and we have to stop that. That's got to be part of our maturation process.

LaVar Arrington

We can't give up the big play, ... That's what we do, and we have to stop that. That's got to be part of our maturation process.

Bob Schneider

We just couldn't stop them. And we didn't stop them. That's my only observation.

Craig Craft

We just couldn't get any stops in the end.

Craig Craft

We couldn't get a stop at the end.

William Patterson

I stopped going to the conferences because most of (us) are all gone.

Jim Crace

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

Ben Barnes

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Bette Davis

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

Bette Davis

Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.

Ashton Kutcher

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

Arsene Wenger

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Arsene Wenger

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

Brad Chalk

Getting to Omaha, that's the ultimate goal. If I batted .100 and we made it there, then I would feel like I succeeded.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

Casey Neistat

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Bill Owens

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Walter Jones

I think so. This is the ultimate goal.

Donald Trump

I say God is the ultimate.

Donald Trump

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage