Canary In The Coal Mine Quotes & Sayings

Lou Reed is unimpressed by applause, and lives a life detached from custom. His stare is cold and his romanticism is brutal. His songs are half-sung melodies of menace. He might drop dead any second, and is therefore the real thing. Examined ravenously like a museum exhibit, Lou Reed is evidently spiked to excess, and strangely loveable. — Morrissey

In Marin County, north of San Francisco, the search for a safe haven resulted in a new apartment complex - the first, and only, such government-sponsored project aimed at MCS. — Peter Radetsky

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine. — Seth Godin

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. — Edward Verrall Lucas

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action. — Susan Collins

Sometimes Danielle fantasized about "waiting tables or working in some easy job where [she] didn't have to think or didn't make mistakes." But twentysomethings who hide out in underemployment, especially those who are hiding out because of a lack of confidence, are not serving themselves. For work success to lead to confidence, the job has to be challenging and it must require effort. It has to be done without too much help. And it cannot go well every single day. A long run of easy successes creates a sort of fragile confidence, the kind that is shattered when the first failure comes along. A more resilient confidence comes from succeeding - and from surviving some failures. — Meg Jay

People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do, which is why they take me for a madman. — Jose Rizal

Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissible. The vaccine costs 15 cents, so it's not - you know, shouldn't be an issue in terms of cost. — Seth Berkley

If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it. — Alan Greenspan

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes. — David Gemmell

When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course - but you don't need academic depth. — Simon Mawer

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again. — Rod Taylor

There are times when the heart, like the canary in the coal mine, breathes in the world's toxicity and begins to die. — Parker J. Palmer

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems. — Kurt Vonnegut

For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year. — John Boyle O'Reilly

Tyrant will eat whatever the fuck is available. — Stephen R. Bissette

Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty. — Antonya Nelson

Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine — Jay Baer

If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise. — Mahatma Gandhi

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long. — Bertolt Brecht