Environment Quotes

• I chose to camouflage my body into the environment because this way, people will pay more attention to the background's social property, and the meaning of my body disappeared in this environment as an individual.

  

  Liu Bolin
  • People
  • Attention
  • Environment

• Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

  

  Eric S. Raymond
  • Good
  • Different
  • Technology

• I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

  

  Allan Sloan
  • Up
  • Environment

• I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes us feel comfortable.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Environment
  • Comfortable
  • Reflects

• I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Up
  • Why
  • Movie

• And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'

  

  John McCain
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?

  

  John Rowland
  • School
  • Why
  • Question

• The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

  

  David James Duncan
  • Environment

• With a screenwriter and with the actors there is always an environment of trust. You can say anything, all your secrets, and you know that it won't get out of that room.

  

  Deniz Gamze Erguven
  • Secrets
  • Room
  • Screenwriter

• I always want to be a part of ensembles. Besides it feeling safer, I think it's a more fun environment to work in. To have a bunch of people collaborating on something, it takes the pressure off of each individual.

  

  Megan Fox
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.

  

  Ashley Judd
  • People
  • Environment
  • Hurt

• When push comes to shove, my children always come first, and I am lucky that I work in an environment that respects that.

  

  Marianne Lake
  • Work
  • Children
  • Environment

• Radicals can be found in any environment.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Environment
  • Found
  • Radical

• We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • People
  • Political
  • Community

• But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.

  

  Kevin Kelly
  • Up
  • Environment

• In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.

  

  Dominic Cooper
  • Work
  • Environment

• The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers - and thermonuclear weapons.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Environment

• I grew up in a secular environment, you know, in the '60s and '70s. My mother's family was Catholic, but you know, just very kind of conventionally Catholic. You know, nothing - there was nothing, you know, extreme about their version of religion. And my father was a free spirit, you know? He had no time for religion at all.

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

  

  Cedric Price
  • Architecture
  • Concern
  • Beneficial

• Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Environment

• It's true that your environment influences how you write.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • True
  • Environment

• Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Work
  • Together
  • Fun

• President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Environment

• I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

  

  Matt Ridley
  • People
  • Green
  • Frozen

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