William H. Calvin Quotes

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

William H. Calvin

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• I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Lost

• I was nine, and I was shopping in a supermarket with my dad. There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • God
  • Children
  • Eyes

• I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called? Crying? Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • People
  • Children
  • Eyes

• There are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes you work for free and get no credit or courtesy. That's why you make sure you do what you love.

  

  Lalah Hathaway
  • Work
  • Why
  • Free

• You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.

  

  Kathy Mattea
  • Dance
  • Hurt
  • Watching

• Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Talk
  • Rhythm
  • Ugle

• This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.

  

  Euripides
  • Justice
  • Pay
  • Foe

• I want nothing but death.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Death

• I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.

  

  William Falconer
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Soul

• We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Cities
  • Areas
  • Deadline

• There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.

  

  Satchel Paige
  • Man
  • Earth

• Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

  

  Satchel Paige
  • Strikes

• A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment.

  

  Edgar Saltus
  • Health
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• My health and my family are the core of my being.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Family
  • Health
  • My Family

• Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

  

  William H. Calvin
  • Century
  • Climate
  • Shrouds