Tonnes Quotes

#1. That one teaspoon of a neutron star weighs billions of tonnes,

Holly Smale

#2. Once food gets into our fridges, larders and kitchens, ensuring that it gets used up before going off seems like an obvious thing to do - but it's alarming how many millions of tonnes are simply chucked because we don't keep track of the food we've spent our money on.

Tristram Stuart

#3. The current best estimate for the Earth's weight is 5.9725 billion trillion tonnes,

Bill Bryson

#4. How strange it is that the house of these hedonic stalwarts is filled with all the luxuries of life, right from plasma televisions to Swiss bank cheque books. So how will they notice the tonnes of food grains rotting in the northern belt?

Faraaz Kazi

#5. There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

K. V. Thomas

#6. I don't like a tormented photograph. Something attracts you in them, but the attraction isn't because she has a pot on her head or tonnes of make-up and weird clothes and weird everything.

Mario Testino

#7. There's tonnes of room for more people in the tech market, and there are lots of content gaps that have still not yet been tapped into.

Jon Oringer

#8. We're creating new supply for the world, which is key. If we didn't get more tonnes into the system, your next motorcar is going to cost more because the aluminum cost is going to be higher.

Ivan Glasenberg

#9. The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year. With one billion people overweight around the world-of whom at least 300 million are obese-that's an additional one billion tonnes.

Jonathon Porritt

#10. My father was a painter, so I was encouraged to take a sketchbook everywhere. Cameras are perishable, but I still have tonnes of sketchbooks from all the trips I've ever been on. It gets you by when you don't know what to give people as a gift; drawings are good souvenirs.

Jane Birkin

#11. We're putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the earth's atmosphere. It's threatening to push the planet past a tipping point beyond which climate change would be difficult to stop

Al Gore

#12. The annual output of carbon emissions is 25 billion tonnes and Global Cool's goal is to reduce it by one billion tonnes a year.

KT Tunstall

#13. I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

Tori Amos

#14. There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes.

Jim Rohn

#15. a millisecond before fifty-two tonnes of intercontinental ballistic missile obliterated him completely.

Will Hill

#16. I'm a mediator by training and inclination.

Joan Blades

#17. I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first.

Jean Kerr

#18. Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.

James Lovelock

#19. You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms ...

Anna Akhmatova

#20. The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

Bear Grylls

#21. In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

Gloria Steinem

#22. I'm very domestic, and I think that keeps me sane. My personal relationships keep me grounded.

Megan Fox

#23. Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with the same money. Ours is a country of the SuperPAC, by the SuperPAC, and for the SuperPAC.

Bill Gross

#24. Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.

Chris Farley

#25. The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

Lou Reed

#26. Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#27. In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.

Clayton Christensen

#28. Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion or selfishness or sorrow?

Randolph Sinks Foster

#29. Better is half a loaf than no bread.

John Heywood