According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I'm very pessimistic about that, no matter how hard we may try. The Chinese market is huge, but out of last year's… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
There's a very big difference between negotiating to borrow billions of dollars on behalf of MCA and negotiating to borrow 28 cents… — Sidney Sheinberg Copy Share Image
Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness. — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are - bundles of brittle… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are 7 billion people in the world, and 5.1 billion of them have a cell phone, and 4 billion have a toothbrush. — Chuck Martin Copy Share Image
I'm sitting with six and a half billion dollars we're going to use to close the Mars-Wrigley deal on October 6. I've… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When I read it and I realized that Michael Landon, Jr. was the director of it, I thought...this could work out well.… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We… — Max More Copy Share Image
One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily,… — David Sills Copy Share Image
If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
I'm not just going to go on these fishing expeditions. I didn't do that with President Obama. We didn't go through this… — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
