“Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.” YearsStillsEnergyHoursMillionsTechnologyProduceResearchPercentIraqNineAlternativesHopefulElectricitySolar Power Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“Endings are the hardest part. I find there's a great relief that at the end of every episode, every hour of TV you produce, while you want a proper and satisfying ending, it doesn't have to end The Story, in capital letters.” WantEndsStoriesHoursProduceTvsLettersHardestReliefSatisfyingEpisodes Author:Vince Gilligan
“Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.” KnowsYearsLooksLittlesArtistHoursProduceAppearanceFavorsNeglected Author:Vanna Bonta
“Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.” ThinkingTwoHardProblemThreeFeltHoursProduceStrangeSevereThree TimesFatigueBreakdown Author:Stanislaw Ulam
“Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.” IfsHumansMayEnjoyHoursPleasureToo MuchProduceHuman LifeProportionEnviousMorrowConversesPresent TimeFly AwayShortness Author:Horace
“It doesn't take much to produce a good merchant of cash-and-carry love: just courage, an infinite capacity for perpetual suspicion, stamina on a 24-hour-a-day basis, the deathless conviction that the customer is always wrong, a fair knowledge of first and second aid, do-it-yourself gynecology, judo - and a tremendous sense of humor.” FirstsHoursProduceCapacityFairsBasesInfiniteConvictionCustomersAidsSense Of HumorCashPerpetualSuspicionProstitutionMerchantsStaminaDo It YourselfJudoAlways WrongDeathlessGynecology Author:Sally Stanford
“other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.” ArtistFallActorsHoursMemoriesSilenceDarknessStageProduceDivinePoetMusicianEvidenceTheaterMissionsPainterCurtainsSculptors Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman
“[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart.” HeartLightWaterHoursBreakSunMagicProduceSummerMiracleRisingVeniceDaybreak Author:Peggy Guggenheim
“Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political clout on Capitol Hill because of its alliance with the railroads... and with coal-burning utilities...” JobsPoliticalHoursProduceWindIndustryBurningHillsCoalUtilityAlliancesRailroadsCapitolCloutCapitol Hill Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“I've never sat down to quantify how many hours I actually spend on the strip. I use the deadlines to estimate my progress; each month I know that I have to produce so many strips, and by the end of the month I'll make sure that I have.” KnowsEndsUseHoursProgressProduceMonthsSatDeadlineEach Month Author:Bill Watterson
“People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don't want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that's it.” PeopleKnowsWantCareHoursHalfRecordsFansProduceBandDifficultyDon't CareReleaseConcertsEquipment Author:Slash
“One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.” PeopleWorldCountryCommunityHoursHalfProduceWorld History Author:Wendell Pierce
“When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.” WholeHoursRecordsPositionProduceAlbumsStudiosHumbleBureaucracyPhilipRecording Studio Author:John Lennon
“I watched Master Class with Lorne Michaels on OWN. How can somebody produce a sketch show and talk for an hour and not say something even slightly amusing, or sarcastic, or ironic, or interesting, or informative? 'My mission as a producer is to encourage creativity.' Mission accomplished.” ShowsHoursInterestingClassCreativityProduceMastersMissionsProducersAccomplishedSarcasticIronicAmusingInformativeMission Accomplished Author:Andy Kindler
“In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.” PeopleLittlesAmericaTermHoursDifferencesWealthProduceWorkersProductivityFranceGermany Author:James Surowiecki