Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Under what’s known as a “business as usual” emissions scenario, surface ocean pH will fall to 8.0 by the middle of this century, and it will drop to 7.8 by the century’s end. At that point, the oceans will be 150 percent more acidic than they were at the start of the industrial revolution.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
Ian Watson
The first job of a writer is to be honest.
Irvine Welsh
The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
Dan Pfeiffer
All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
Pam Bondi
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
Lascelles Abercrombie
A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
Dalai Lama
It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.
Daniel Barenboim
When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.
Laura Carmichael
I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.
Kandyse McClure
Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.
A. Philip Randolph
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
J. B. Priestley
When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.
Wayne Rooney
