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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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
J. D. Vance
What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
J. August Richards
If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
W. C. Fields
In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
Rachael Harris
When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
Sam Shepard
Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
Bai Ling
My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
Victoria Pratt
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
I always wanted to be an actor, so part of me is split between the artistic side and the physical side, but then physically I was just born as quite a healthy specimen!
Dave Legeno
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
John Ciardi
You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
Sally Field
I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
Paloma Faith
The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.
Nassau William Senior
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
