Smog famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.
-- Diablo Cody

#Space #Nadir #Smog
Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.
-- Dr. Seuss

#Swans #Smog #Environment
Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated.
-- Richard K. Morgan

#Culture #Smog #Breathe
Carbon dioxide does not cause or contribute to smog, and the Kyoto treaty would do nothing to reduce or prevent smog.
-- Stephen Harper

#Kyoto #Smog #Causes
My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.
-- Damien Dempsey

#Song #Dublin #Smog

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance
Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff weâ€™re good at, we never learn anything new.
Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.
Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as 'the nature of things.' The very efficacy of opinion manipulation rests on the fact that we do not know we are being manipulated. The most insidious forms of oppression are those that so insinuate themselves into our communication universe and the recesses of our minds that we do not even realize they are acting upon us.
In creating a family, we fulfill our greatest purpose on earth.
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?
The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found.
It's easier to set off a bomb that kills innocent civilians in a market than it is to plot an assassination, but that obviously was true before as well. I also think it's now easier to get attention for a small attack that goes off in a random market. It's almost like there's a marketplace for terror in the media, and these people are supplying the attacks, knowing that the media will cover them sensationally.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.