Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have these trails of electrons left behind, and the wind in the upper atmosphere causes them to drift. It pushes them one direction or another. We can measure the speed at which those electrons are drifting and infer the wind speed.

We have the offensive capability to break any game open. We knew it was going to be tough tonight. Obviously they wanted to win here, and I think it was a moral victory for us, keeping a tie and going to RFK because RFK is tough. It will be a great atmosphere and we will be ready.

John Turner

We have the classic global warming signal. It is like the blanket on the bed: When we wrap the Earth with a blanket of greenhouse gases... we trap heat under it at the expense of the atmosphere above, which then cools.

Jim Bishop

We don't know all of the controls on how these plants grow and thus cannot predict how things will change in the future as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to rise. For example, seldom do people go to sea to find out what is happening in the wintertime. We did just that.

We work on that defensive pressure all the time and those steals were the result of the work of everybody on the floor. It is tough coming out here in this atmosphere and trying to come away with a win after losing the momentum in the second half.

We worked very hard to create an atmosphere where the idea was to celebrate community and cross boundaries.

James Balog

We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone.

Gretchen Rubin

Give warm greetings and farewells. I was surprised by how much this resolution changed the atmosphere of my home.

Jamie Dixon

We had four good games up there. We got a lot of good things out of it. A lot of guys got some good, big-game experience in a hostile atmosphere similar to what we'll face in the NCAA tournament. We got better last week. That's the biggest advantage.

We had tremendous fan support and the atmosphere during the game was exciting. The team was ready to play and gave it their all.

Kyle Lowry

We had to use a lot of hand signals. ... This is the kind of atmosphere we practice for - the toughest situations, the toughest arenas.

We have to keep in mind that there was an explosion that consumed oxygen, that other contaminants are present in the atmosphere inside the mine, and that the rescue effort is being done carefully to ensure there is not another explosion.

Usually with blocking patterns, it's a week, maybe two at the outside. The next time the atmosphere goes into the whole block, which could be later this year, the low could be way over the western Pacific or over the Mainland so we won't get wet. (In March 2006), it was kind of like being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

With the earth's atmosphere quite clear at the moment, those with a good view will see the moon brick-red, perhaps with a tinge of blue,

With close to 200 young people on stage, the atmosphere was electric.

We will look at the current inventory and work to ensure a proper atmosphere at the library.

Michael Specter

There are many theories about the best way to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere - some are ludicrous, others are at least worth study. The most commonly discussed plan is to lace the sky with reflective chemicals.

Quentin Blake

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

Both teams know that they were a second shot or rebound away from winning the whole thing, so there will be a lot of energy in this game. Barton will be playing after our game, so the atmosphere in that evening set of games will be really intense.

Alison Goldfrapp

The two have to go hand in hand - the atmosphere and the music. I actually get rather worried if I can't see the music first. There always needs to be a mood, a feeling, a story, even if it is abstract. There's got to be a narrative to guide things before they're even created.

The government's case was long on atmosphere and short on facts and we are going to get the facts in front of the jury. We are very hopeful and confident.

The GOP culture of corruption that has poisoned the atmosphere of Capitol Hill is being cultivated here in Tallahassee.

Alan Furst

Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.

The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.

Doris Lessing

The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war.

Edward Rutherfurd

I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need to tell the reader everything. But one hopes that the writer's belief in his characters is evident in the telling, just as the mood created in the writer's mind comes through in the atmosphere of the scene described.

We're still young, but we have experience. We return all but one guy, so the players we have coming back know the system and know the routine. It's a more laid-back atmosphere than in the past. I don't know if that's good or bad, but we'll find out in about two weeks.

We're trying to give them a club atmosphere without drinking and it has worked out better than we were thinking it would. We talked to other people and they didn't have good results. They told us what to look for and what to be on guard for.

Bernard Hill

Actually, parts of New Zealand remind me of Suffolk. There's not many flat bits, but just the atmosphere there. There's a kind of a core tranquility about it, a kind of assuredness that this is fairly close to approaching the perfect way to be.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

Corliss Lamont

Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil liberties.

Clifford Geertz

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

Julian Wright

We understand their situation coming here. We did a lot of stuff for Hurricane Katrina relief during football season. Our fans are classy. They will show their support. It will be a great atmosphere Thursday.