Munienvironmental Quotes & Sayings

Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people. — Elizabeth Kolbert

Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right now. — Jon Stewart

When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility. — Neil Postman

And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth. — Sebastian Barry

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. — Sebastian Horsley

One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that I'm writing about. No matter how scrupulously maintained a historic house or battlefield may be, it is nothing like it was in the long-ago past. — Nathaniel Philbrick

I have felt an urgency to counsel each of us to seek the higher ground
the refuge and eternal protection of the temple. — Quentin L. Cook

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale. — Massimo Vignelli

It is no blasphemy to say that every man creates the God creating him. We are facets of a work whose finished form we cannot imagine, though our imaginations, aided by grace, are the means - or at least one means - of its completion. — Christian Wiman

Every time I talk about 'The Shield' I kind of talk about it from three perspectives, as if I'm three people, because I'm a fan of the show. I'm in love with all the other characters and their journeys and their work. But then, as an actor, I love getting this kind of rich material and having to do it. As my character, did my journey finish? — Benito Martinez

Because, Dee, I'm the thing in the dark, just like the Viking used to tell me. I'm the creature coming up from the basement, the thing under the bed. I have nothing to feat in the dark. I am the dark.

I am afraid. — Dawn Kurtagich

Whatever the anxiety is based upon, one of the best ways to minimize the anxiety of change - or any other anxiety - is to actively participate in the process of that change, i.e., to do something." She declared it is necessary to become actively involved in the change rather than passively accepting and accommodating it.7 By — Phyllis Povell

We did 'The Simpsons Movie,' which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that's why there hasn't been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they'll start doing movies. — Matt Groening

When we reach out to pluck a flower the stem trembles, seeming both to shrink and to offer itself. The human body has something of this tremor at the moment when the mysterious hand of death reaches out to pluck a soul. — Victor Hugo

Andre Tippett was an impact player who consistently played at a level that set him apart. Accounting for him limited what an offense could do. He made quarterbacks nervous.and rightly so. — Raymond Berry