Lirry Stayne Quotes & Sayings

They argue that, if the governments of developed countries want a fifty-fifty chance of hitting the agreed-upon international target of keeping warming below 2 degrees Celsius, and if reductions are to respect any kind of equity principle between rich and poor nations, then wealthy countries need to start cutting their greenhouse gas emissions by something like 8 to 10 percent a year - and they need to start right now. The idea that such deep cuts are required used to be controversial in the mainstream climate community, where the deadlines for steep reductions always seemed to be far off in the future (an 80 percent cut by 2050, for instance). But as emissions have soared and as tipping points loom, that is changing rapidly. Even Yvo de Boer, who held the U.N.'s top climate position until 2009, remarked recently that "the only way" negotiators "can achieve a 2-degree goal is to shut down the whole global economy."48 — Naomi Klein

In the void of the mind, what are your dreams? — Pupola

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow. — Orson Scott Card

Stand-up is different from television. In stand-up, you've got to be in control. — Bob Newhart

You drive the car, you don't carry it. — Janet Guthrie

I've enjoyed watching 'Lost.' I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men.' — Timothy Hutton

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge. — Ben Nelson

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it ... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane. — Roger Ebert

I'm pretty much right on schedule. Start off slow, finish up strong. I don't know why everyone panics. I've been doing this for ten years now. Why change? — Albert Belle

In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on. — Joe Lhota

I'm not a cynic. I am a realist. — Sonya Watson

When people do not want to see something, they get mad at the one who shows them. — Julia Cameron

Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive. — Alvin Langdon Coburn

Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you float, how peaceful is the sense of being borne along, and how familiar the sound of the water lapping against your limbs. — Kamila Shamsie