Coal famous quotes

The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell.
-- Alison Lundergan Grimes

#People #Coal #Want

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.
-- Allan Savory

#Agriculture #Coal #Coal Mining

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
-- Aneurin Bevan

#Islands #Fishing #Coal

Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs.
-- Aubrey McClendon

#Jobs #Oil #Coal

Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.
-- Augustus William Hare

#Self #Coal #Pits

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Basketball #Jobs #Coal

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.
-- Barack Obama

#Want #Energy #Coal

Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. . . . Because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, natural gas-you name it-whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.
-- Barack Obama

#Names #Coal #Energy

No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
-- Bernard Malamud

#Anger #Hot #Coal

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.
-- Betty Boothroyd

#Dust #Desire #Coal

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
-- Bill Crawford

#Fire #Hot #Coal

Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.
-- Bill Nye

#Hopeful #Coal #Burning

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Government #Nuclear #Coal

You need to be in fellowship of a church...If you separate a live coal from the others, it will soon die out. However, if you put a live coal in with other live coals, it will be a glow that will last for hours.
-- Billy Graham

#Church #Needs #Coal

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).
-- Billy Joe Shaver

#Coal #Someday #Diamond

In the right situation, acting on television can be extraordinarily satisfying creatively. But that's incredibly rare. Otherwise, it can be like working in a really remunerative coal mine. That's the down side.
-- Bradley Whitford

#Acting #Coal #Television

Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.
-- Camille Paglia

#Gay #Men #Coal

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
-- Chanakya

#Judging #Black #Coal

The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.
-- Charles Duhigg

#Dirty #Coal #Waste

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
-- Charles Duhigg

#America #Arabia #Coal

Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.
-- Charles Stuart Calverley

#Cat #Coal #Boots

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.
-- Christopher Bollen

#Valentine #Coal #Killers

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.
-- Eduardo Galeano

#Fighting #Dust #Coal

Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods.
-- Emeril Lagasse

#Add #Coal #Way

Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment.
-- Eva Braun

#Hot #Drs #Coal

I support an all of the above energy policy, so that's not only just Keystone, that's not only just drilling, that's clean coal, that's safe nuclear.
-- Fred Upton

#Support #Coal #Safe

Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in the ratio of a million to one, compared with any previous sources. The release of atomic energy will change the whole structure of society.
-- Frederick Soddy

#Islands #Energy #Coal

The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.
-- Gautam Adani

#Events #Coal #Milestone

Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.
-- George Monbiot

#People #Nuclear #Coal

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.
-- Harry Houdini

#Alcohol #Balls #Coal

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.
-- Harry Houdini

#Kings #Fire #Coal

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
-- Henry A. Kissinger

#Coal #Pressure #Jewelry

Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.
-- Henry Cisneros

#Hot #Coal #Dry

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port
-- Henry Mayhew

#Heart #Fire #Coal

It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Autumn #Apples #Coal

The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.
-- Horace Walpole

#Coal #Fuel #Sun

Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.
-- James Fallows

#People #Chinese #Coal

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.
-- James Hansen

#Energy #Coal #Environment

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.
-- James Hansen

#Civilization #Coal #Climate Change

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.
-- James Lovelock

#Oil #Coal #Pounds

I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.
-- Jason Flemyng

#Coal #Body #Faces

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

#Media #Coal #Social

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
-- Jeff Buckley

#Age #Coal #Pouring

Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas.
-- Jeff Goodell

#United States #Coal #Half

Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.
-- Jeff Goodell

#Climate #Coal #Facts

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
-- Jeff Goodell

#Energy #Events #Coal

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.
-- Jeff Goodell

#Coal #Gorillas #Rooms

For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.
-- Jeff Goodell

#Jobs #Gone #Coal

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.
-- Jeff Goodell

#Coal #China #Wells

Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.
-- Jeff Goodell

#Fighting #Coal #Inspiring Others

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
-- Jeff Goodell

#Political #Coal #Economy

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
-- Jimmy Breslin

#Football #Games #Coal

Even coal shimmers in the light
-- Jocelyn Murray

#Light #Coal #Shimmer

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.
-- Jodi Picoult

#Pain #Past #Coal

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.
-- Joe Hill

#Fire #Rakes #Coal

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.
-- John Major

#Numbers #Hot #Coal

Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed.
-- John S. Watson

#Needs #Generations #Coal

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.
-- John W. Snow

#Country #Energy #Coal

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.
-- Johnny Knoxville

#Acting #Coal #Tough

The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago.
-- Joseph J. Romm

#Two #Climate #Coal

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Coal #Definitions #Jewelry

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.
-- Kumi Naidoo

#Children #Oil #Coal

Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.
-- Lamar S. Smith

#Oil #Energy #Coal

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder

#Railroads #Coal #Ems

Soon after I'd had my son I really wasn't planning on going back to work for a while. I will walk over hot coals to work with Bill Condon on anything, the experience that you have with him is just too good.I've certainly never worked with him before so the trio of Bill [Codon], Ian [ McKellen], and Sherlock Holmes, and England: it was too much to say "no" to.
-- Laura Linney

#Son #Hot #Coal

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

#Jobs #Coal #Stuck

We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.
-- Li Yizhong

#Safety #Coal #Lessons

Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
-- Madeleine M. Kunin

#Home #Voice #Coal

Would you rather see a super soldier battling Nazis or something more serious? Or lesbians down a coal mine? Generally, the films are engaging in the same way as the comics are. It's no coincidence that the biggest movies are genre-related, whether it's Lord of the Rings or comic books.
-- Mark Millar

#Book #Soldier #Coal

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.
-- Martin Cruz Smith

#Men #Coal #World

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.
-- Mary Heaton Vorse

#Russia #News #Coal

My father and brothers were coal miners.
-- Merle Travis

#Brother #Father #Coal

The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal
-- Michael Foot

#Believe #People #Coal

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.
-- Miriam

#Pressure #Coal #Pieces

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.
-- Moby

#Years #Average #Coal

This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin'; We both on assignment to unearth the diamond.
-- Mos Def

#Rap #Hip Hop #Coal

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.
-- Mother Jones

#Coal #World

If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.
-- Nicholas Stern

#Fuel #Coal #Scales

Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond.
-- Nicky Gumbel

#Pressure #Coal #Diamond

I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.
-- Nikita Khrushchev

#Coal #Pits #Alive

Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.
-- Nikola Tesla

#Oil #Needs #Coal

Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole
-- Nnimmo Bassey

#Oil #Soil #Coal

I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor.
-- Pierre Schaeffer

#Fire #Coal #World

The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.
-- Robert Pollin

#Oil #Yield #Coal

The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today.
-- Rudolf Diesel

#Oil #Important #Coal

I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
-- Sam Rockwell

#Daughter #Mother #Coal

The president's come out with rules that say 'no new coal-fired power plants,’
-- Shelley Moore Capito

#President #Coal #Plant

My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.
-- Skylar Grey

#Mom #Coal #Grapefruit

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#Jealousy #Fire #Coal

Coal is My Worst Nightmare.
-- Steven Chu

#Coal #Energy #Nightmare

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

#Coal #Climate #Action

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Pain #Pearls #Coal

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.
-- Terry Pratchett

#Waiting #Coal #Diamond

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Jobs #Pieces #Coal

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day
-- Thomas Overbury

#Fire #Coal #Deeds

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
-- Tim Cahill

#Art #Gold #Coal

I’m wearing out this new Coal Men record. I think it’s masterful start-to-finish. Dave Coleman is one of Americana music’s great songwriters, and I hope this record gets the attention it deserves.
-- Todd Snider

#Men #Thinking #Coal

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.
-- Tom Jones

#Thinking #Coal #Tuberculosis

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
-- Tom Jones

#Father #Class #Coal

It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able to operate without the need for assistance apart from social grants.
-- Tony Benn

#Government #Coal #Phases