Storming Heaven Denise Giardina Quotes

#1. He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays
cynical but hopeful.

Rose Macaulay

#2. The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into pre- Katrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes.

Joseph J. Romm

#3. The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#4. Gray hair is the glory of a long life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

Rosanne Cash

#6. We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.

Kenneth H. Cooper

#7. Forget about acquiring new people. If you service your audience they will get you new fans.

Bob Lefsetz

#8. Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

Norman Borlaug