“For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.” WorldYearsHas BeensBigsWaterMillionsAirThis WorldPlanetsOceanSeasonsSpeciesIncludingForestsWeatherAtmosphereTemperatureLiving OnGreat GiftsWoods And Forests Author:Rebecca Solnit
“The diesel engine industry has illegally poured millions of tons of pollution into the air, .. It's time for the industry to clean up its act, and it's time for it to clean up the air.” MillionsAirIndustryCleanEnginesPollutionCleanlinessDiesel Author:Janet Reno
“The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.” MenMillionsAirOrdinaryFellowsExtraordinaryFighterAviationCombatOne In A Million Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Odors can be highly transitory, depending on the air currents. If this is happening in your house, ask if there are any possessions of that deceased loved one still around. If it happens elsewhere, consider just how many millions of people use the same perfume or smoke the same brand of cigar as someone you knew.” PeopleIfsStillsUseHappensAsksHouseMillionsAirHappeningsCurrentsPossessionBrandsSmokeLoved OnesElsewherePerfumeCigarTransitoryOdorDeceased Author:Seth Shostak
“The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.” IfsFirstsUnitedMillionsAirFeetFirst TimeTwentiesPopulationShouldersKingdomsSixtyUnited Kingdom Author:Eddie Mair
“I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact.” WayMadeFactsTodayDifferencesMillionsAirHonestDogFoodHotCookingLaysParisCulinaryBathsWheatPrevailingRubberSausageBaltimoreSpongesPseudoCompactHot DogMustardFlourAcornsPlasters Author:H. L. Mencken
“Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it is horrible! - that one man may own twenty millions of money, and another has to commit a crime to keep the life in his miserable body. And if I were wealthy, I'd be a spendthrift! It's the spendthrifts who are the real friends of the poor. Some of their money filters through to the very lowest classes.” IfsThinkingMenWorldMayMadeRealBodyWealthPleasurePoorClassMillionsRichAirCrimePureTwentiesHorribleCommitMiserableWealthyOne ManLowestReal FriendsImmoralFiltersSpendthrift Author:Ellen Buckingham Mathews
“First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.” WorldFirstsWellsWarMillionsGoneForeverAirSeaLessonsEuropeDefenseWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IWarfareVeteranPacificAmerican Veterans Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.” IfsSoulCitiesWonderMillionsAirNew YorkSummerEightGiantsRisingVisibleNew York CitySweatSteamSummer DaysGlands Author:Diane Ackerman
“Videos? Videos are important because millions of people watch TV and we can only tour and play so many places. But if you've got a video, then you're able to air it and millions and millions of people will see it.” PeopleIfsImportantPlayAbleWatchesMillionsAirTvsVideo Author:Jonathan Davis
“There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.” SongFallMillionsAirSeasonsSmellTriggers Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“The global warming deniers persist in this air of unreality. After all, the entire north polar icecap, which has been there for most of the last 3 million years, is disappearing before our eyes. Forty percent is already gone. The rest is expected to go completely within the next decade. What do they think is causing this?” ThinkingYearsHas BeensEyeLastsNextMillionsGoneAirPercentDisappearExpectedDecadesGlobal WarmingFortyPersistUnrealityAlready Gone Author:Al Gore
“I think it's fine that there are five million people who are watching [politics on TV], and obviously I'm happy they are since they're on the air, and there are a couple hundred thousand people reading The Weekly Standard online, and that's great too, but most Americans aren't engaged that intensely, and are much less partisan.” PeopleThinkingReadingMillionsFiveAirTvsFineCoupleThousandStandardsHundredEngagedOnlinePartisans Author:William Kristol