Famous Quotes & Sayings

ATM surcharging benefits high-fee, big banks and hurts low-cost alternatives such as credit unions and smaller banks.

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

Bill Richardson

There is still mistrust, but I believe conditions for negotiations have improved, ... The atmosphere is the best I've seen in 15 years.

There's no better atmosphere than what we played in tonight. It just can't get better than it was. There cannot be a better college basketball atmosphere than we had tonight.

There's no hazing or anything like that. Coach Jones has created an atmosphere where we're a family. He's like the dad telling the older siblings not to pick on the young ones.

What an atmosphere for a high school football game. It was just the fourth game of the season. But it was what you'd expect out of a game in the second round of the playoffs.

We tend to play better in a road-type atmosphere for some reason. I don't know. We knew that most of the North Carolina schools are within a good radius of this building, so we knew we weren't going to have a lot of fan support.

Countee Cullen

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

R. Kelly

I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.

We're excited to be placed at Penn State. It's more than just our 12 players and coaches. Now all our fans have an opportunity to come and support us the way they have all season. It should make it a very exciting atmosphere for us.

We stayed composed because we know what we can do, and we just want to stay within ourselves and play our game. We didn't let the crowd or the atmosphere rattle us. We just did what we do.

The expectation in this community is so high, they'd run me out of town if I didn't make it. The atmosphere around here is that we're supposed to be here.

Daniel Kessler

We all really like Montreal a lot. It has a real lively, living atmosphere - it's not squeaky clean, it's got a real grit to it, a real story.

Those who don't like the festival atmosphere might just come for the music.

Sylvia Earle

We woke up some years ago about the consequences of ozone depletion, the hole in the atmosphere. You can't see it. You can't taste it. You can't smell it. But now we do regard that as a key issue. It's a scientific finding.

Sylvia Earle

We have an atmosphere that is roughly 21% oxygen. The rest of it is largely nitrogen. There's just enough carbon dioxide (CO2) to drive photosynthesis. That has been, throughout the history of our species, pretty stable. Until recently.

Raul Julia

You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba.

Thomas Jefferson

I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

Ross Gelbspan

Each year we pump at least six billion tons of heat-trapping carbon into the innermost layer of our atmosphere, whose outer extent is only about twelve miles overhead. According to an IPCC (United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report released this year, atmospheric CO2 will, if the buildup is left unchecked, double from its pre-industrial level within the next century. That doubling of CO2 correlates with an increase in the global temperature of at least three to eight degrees Fahrenheit. The last ice age was just five to nine degrees colder than our current climate.

Rupert Murdoch

We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films, broadcasting television signals, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It all adds carbon to the atmosphere.

Roman Polanski

I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.

Roger Zelazny

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.

Susan Griffin

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

Sonny Rollins

I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere.

Raymond Smullyan

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.

Victor Francis Hess

It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.

Sissela Bok

Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.

Michael Oppenheimer

A hotter, moister atmosphere is an atmosphere primed to trigger disasters.

Maya Angelou

I live in an atmosphere of music.

Martin Rees

The carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is measured. It's uncontroversial. It's going up. We know that has a tendency to warm the atmosphere and we should be worried about that.

John Stuart Mill

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

John Shimkus

So, if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?

John Olver

The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.