“Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.” LooksMadeLightGroupsAirIndustryStandardsPicksEnvironmentalCome UpArbitraryMandatesBulbsCatchyLight BulbFeasibility Author:Fred Upton
“The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.” WaterAirEffectsCostPicksFuelPollutionEconomistFossilsFossil FuelAir And WaterBurning Fossil FuelsWater Pollution Author:Jeff Goodell
“The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but it’s also an absolute miracle, that you’re taking basically a calcium bucket filled with salt-water that’s run by a weak electrical signal, and you’re using it to move your flesh around in order to manipulate an instrument which disturbs air molecules between you and the listener, and then the listener’s ears picks up those disturbed air molecules which generates a weak electrical signal to their calcium bucket full of salt water, and they feel a feeling. That’s miraculous, and that’s where I live.” FeelsFeelingsRunningMovingOrderWaterAirPicksWeakEarsMiracleAbsolutesInstrumentsFilledMusicalFleshBiologySaltListenersSignalsManipulateMiraculousDisturbedMoleculesElectricalBucketsMusical InstrumentsCalciumSalt Water Author:Bob Brozman
“Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part - not because they think that person is right for it or is ready for it, but because they think that person will make them money.” ThinkingInspirationalGivingPersonsMadeFilmFacesYoungAirReadyPicksFemaleMalesAccountants Author:Christopher Lee
“But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.” BookBeautifulEmotionAirBlessingPicksCurseTangibleIntangibleBook Covers Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
“I believe in geographic cures - they allow you to throw all your cards in the air and see where they land, then pick them back up and deal them again.” BelieveMovingI BelieveDealsAirLandPicksI Believe InCuresCards Book:Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole Source: Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
“My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might just as well look you up this morning.” IfsMenGivingWellsLooksLongUseMightLastsNightLeftOpinionMorningAirSonOughtGiving UpAuthorityPicksClaimsBreathsRateHandleBreadMy SonStolenNever Giving UpLast NightLoan Author:Halldór Laxness
“If I had to pick one exact moment when we were live on air and something very, very special happened it was at the Athens Olympics. Chris Hoy won the Gold Medal in the kilometre time trial and that was incredible.” IfsMomentsHappenedAirSpecialPicksGoldIncrediblesTrialsOlympicsMedalGold MedalsAthens Author:Jill Douglas
“I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.” WritingMatterShowsMorningFiveAirGoes OnPicksTheaterNo Matter WhatRadioCooksClockLakesSaturdayFridayDeadlineAdrenalineMonologuesLake WobegonFriday Morning Author:Garrison Keillor
“As a network, they're not the network that usually picks things up after the first episode airs. They definitely have a methodology that they follow. But they're very happy with the show [Into the Badlands]and they're very excited with how it's performed.” FirstsShowsAirPicksExcitedEpisodesVery HappyMethodology Author:Alfred Gough