Jeff Goodell Quotes

President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.

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• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Three

• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Long
  • Summer
  • June

• I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Care

• Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Society
  • Everything
  • Grow

• With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Prince
  • Reward
  • Slow

• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • You
  • Lies

• I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Great
  • Moral
  • Courage

• Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Love
  • Love Is

• I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Opportunity
  • Environment
  • Speak

• Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Ordinary

• My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.

  

  Ian Wright
  • People
  • End
  • Name

• We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Wish
  • Deep
  • Look

• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.

  

  Ira Glass
  • World
  • Good
  • Character

• We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Know
  • Retirement

• Let's just say I'm a believer in universal, single-payer healthcare insurance.

  

  Charles Bock
  • Single
  • Insurance
  • Health care

• In New Zealand we had this colossal squid, which was discovered just off the shores of New Zealand, between New Zealand and Antarctica back in 2003. It's the biggest squid ever found, and I know that there's things living down in the depths of the ocean that do explain the Kraken - you know, these giant things that people saw back in the day, that could take ships down - and so I know that there's stuff out there, and I like the idea that we haven't solved everything yet.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Ideas
  • Ocean
  • Found

• I'm really drawn to chameleons; I'm really drawn to people who can play a wide range of roles, who are really versatile, but are so in a way that's with ease.

  

  Matt Letscher
  • People

• What people are going to think of me, I can't really change that.

  

  Jennifer Lien
  • People

• Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Food
  • Eating
  • Half

• President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • History