Quotes About Impact

I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.

Rights" have a dull sound to people who have grown up after they have been won.

That person, I can't remember who it was right now, who said the pen was mightier that the sword-I thnk they were wrong. I think the eraser is actually the most powerful tool. I wish there was an eraser that could erase the things a person did. And erase other people. Writing things down doesn't erase anything. What's done is done, and that really sucks.

Nothing in the world was worse than unhappy parents. Nothing. When parents were unhappy, the whole world seemed to go wrong.

It has been said that to teach is to touch the future.

Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin observed, "The North Carolina Republican Party actually sent out a press release boasting about how its efforts drove down African-American turnout in this election."194

We are better able to resist the negative impact of oppressive messages when we see them coming than when they are invisible to us.

One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.

Look, if you draw a two thousand-mile-long line across the United States at any angle, it's going to pass through nine murder victims.

It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect.

We are the only creature that can harm at a distance.

Travelling faster than a bullet, an incoming meteor would be moving much too swiftly to be seen, much less to provoke alarm. (Credit

22 million tonnes of such unwanted fish are dumped back in the sea each year, mostly in the form of corpses.

I read once that it takes 75,000 trees to produce one issue of the Sunday New York Times — and it's well worth every trembling leaf. So what if our grandchildren have no oxygen to breathe? Fuck 'em.

tropical hurricane can release in twenty-four hours as much energy as a rich, medium-sized nation like Britain or France uses in a year.

His point, of course, is that it is easy to make any banal situation seem extraordinary if you treat it as fateful. So

A child half your height who falls and strikes her head will experience only 1/32 of the force of impact that a grown person would feel, which is part of the reason that children so often seem to be mercifully indestructible.15

Called "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies," it is one of the most extraordinary scientific papers ever published, as much for how it was presented as for what it said.

I read once that it takes 75,000 trees to produce one issue of the Sunday New York Times – and it's well worth every trembling leaf. So what if our grandchildren have no oxygen to breathe? Fuck 'em.

In Florence, the annual ratio of tourists to locals is 14:1. How can any place preserve any kind of independent life when it is so manifestly overwhelmed? It can't. It's as simple as that.

before 1923 there was almost no lead in the atmosphere, and that since that time lead levels had climbed steadily and dangerously.

If all the ice sheets melted, sea levels would rise by 60 metres—the height of a twenty-storey building—and every coastal city in the world would be inundated.

a little change in the Earth's dynamics can have repercussions beyond our imagining.

even a modest dilution of the ocean's salt content—from increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet, for instance—could disrupt the cycle disastrously. The