“When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.” GivingHardSoundBehindsAudienceFrontsSpeechStandingHallsConventionsEnthusiasticBehind You Author:Susan Estrich
“Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.” PeopleKnowsTogetherPartyRepublicanSpendingNutsRepublican PartyChairmanDeanBoltsNuts And Bolts Author:Susan Estrich
“I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.” IfsChristianHollywoodNotionNot Sure Author:Jane Fonda
“Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.” KindAnimalHalfSeaLandMajorsDivision Author:Sylvia Earle
“Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.” SeaCreaturesPreparedSpeciesScalesSharksEcosystemsExtractionSquids Author:Sylvia Earle
“Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.” HumansWellsSufferingCreaturesConsequenceResponsibleFishesOilHorizonSpillsOil SpillChanges Over TimeSuffering The Consequences Author:Sylvia Earle
“Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.” HumansHas BeensLostMiddleCenturyOcean20th CenturyHuman History Author:Sylvia Earle
“There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.” WorldMatterNumbersTeachFailingMissingLettersConnectionsImportanceCommunicateWhat MattersYoungstersInforming Author:Sylvia Earle
“My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.” WhiteMy FavoriteCoastSauceFavorites ThingsSpaghettiClams Author:Todd English
“A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.” ThinkingArtTwoFormBeliefKeysEgoCombinationEngagedLiterary Art Author:Will Eisner