Atmosphere Quotes - Page 15

• The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped.

  Jill Stein

  Keystone Pipeline, Pollution, Should

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• I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in.

  Booker T. Washington

  Race, Office, Empathy

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.

  William H. Calvin

  Years, Growth, Climate

  William H. Calvin (2008). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.225, University of Chicago Press

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• Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Ocean, Twenties, Climate

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

  George Grosz

  Wise, War, People

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• While other guitars may have more twang or an esoteric atmosphere, the Les Paul is like a T-Rex thampling everything in it's path .. it can be subtle if you want it to be, but it works best if you have an 'armadillo in your trousers' and you want to articulate that

  Miles Zuniga

  Music, Guitar, May

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• Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves. They will control the climate and the Solar System just as they control the Earth. They will travel beyond the limits of our planetary system; they will reach other Suns, and use their fresh energy instead of the energy of their dying luminary.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Ocean, Men, Years

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• Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Men, Light, Space

  "Beyond the Planet Earth". Book by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1920.

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• The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the willing suspension of disbelief, the feeling that, within the circle, or in the presence of the magical shrine, anything may happen.

  Doreen Valiente

  Circles, Feelings, Magic

  Doreen Valiente (2018). “An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present”, p.372, The Crowood Press

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• HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, West Indies, Sea

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.147, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity capable of maintaining the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers far beyond those of its constituent parts.

  James Lovelock

  Whales, Viruses, Needs

  James Lovelock, J. E. Lovelock (2000). “Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth”, p.9, Oxford Paperbacks

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• They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere.

  Emma Goldman

  Art, Liberty, Want

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.30, 谷月社

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• Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Eye, Rights, Giving

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.

  Victor Francis Hess

  Rays, Answers, Earth

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• Pele played in an era which had so many great players and in that atmosphere he stood out above the others. He was the complete player in every aspect as well as being a kind human being. Cristiano Ronaldo is young yet, and has many years ahead of himself. But as of now, I do not see anyone who can compare with Pele.

  Eusebio

  Cristiano Ronaldo, Player, Years

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• Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.

  Auguste Rodin

  Kind, Mystery, Masters

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• For 6,000 years, these rules have been unquestionably right. And yet we break them every day. People feel that something is wrong in life. There is some kind of atmosphere that makes people now turn to other values. They want to contemplate the basic questions of life, and that is probably the real reason for wanting to tell these stories.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Real, Years, People

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• Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film.

  Carl Theodor Dreyer

  Taken, Light, Doors

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• Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.

  Gaddis Smith

  Agency, Yale, Class

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• When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived

  Arthur Koestler

  Country, Feet, Brutality

  Arthur Koestler (1973). “The lion and the ostrich: the eighth annual lecture under the "Thank-offering to Britain Fund."”, Not Avail

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• Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

  Erik Satie

  Moving, Character, Musical

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• Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

  John Powell

  Acceptance, Rejection, Soil

  John Powell (1990). “Will the Real Me, Please Stand Up?: Twenty-Five Guidelines for Good Communication”, Thomas More Association

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• The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Squares, Air

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.138, New Riders

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• Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

  Edgar Degas

  Photography, Daylight, Want

  Edgar Degas, Jean Sutherland Boggs (1988). “Degas [exposition]”, p.535, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wine, Color, Emerald Green

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2552, Delphi Classics

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