"The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand……" — Rose George
"The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship."
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45 Quotes by Rose George
Rose George has 45 quotes on this site.
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I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion…
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The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.
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In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as…
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The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was…
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I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against…
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A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a…
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Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China…
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Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have…
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There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need…
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Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount…
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There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive…
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The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.
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More Bananas Quotes
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one of 196 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love…
— Casey Affleck
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From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore.…
— Steve Carell
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Technology has the shelf life of a banana.
— Scott McNealy
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You never know where to look when eating a banana.
— Peter Kay
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When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat…
— Don Meyer
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Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.'…
— Richard Dawkins
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
— Clifton Fadiman
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Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them…
— Unknown Author
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When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When…
— Kingsley Amis
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I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.
— Unknown Author
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Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to…
— Adele Griffin
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My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana.'
— Betty White
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