Frank Gehry Quotes

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

My obsession is plastic packaging. It makes me sick, all the waste. Everything about it disappoints me.

On the face of it there is a pristine white sandy beach, but within an hour, around 100 of us can collect up to 250-300 kilos of rubbish. It's mostly bits of plastic, fishing line, nylon, bottle caps. We've found everything.

Everyone said to me: 'Oh there's nothing you can do about plastic once it gets into the oceans,' and I wondered whether that was true.

It's a very strange experience to be four or five days from the closest point of land, and you see more plastic than life.

These garbage patches won't go away by themselves.

We're starting with the North Pacific gyre simply because it is the largest accumulation of plastic.

When I was 16 years old, I went scuba diving in Greece and saw more plastic bags than fish. I wondered why we couldn't just clean it up. That rather simple question stuck in my head.

Plastic doesn't have to be ocean plastic pollution.

Plastic waste is undeniably a big issue, and Europeans need to act together to tackle this problem because plastic waste ends up in our air, our soil, our oceans, and in our food.

There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on.

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

I have witnessed the takeover of my world by plastic.

I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.

We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it.

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

We need to start prioritizing people, not polar bears. We're probably less adaptable than them, anyway. The farther you are from the Beltway, the more you can have a conversation about climate no matter how people vote. I never try to politicize the issue.

It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.

Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.

If everyone likes you, it probably means you aren't saying much.

An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

I am going to be using Ronald Reagan's Bible [during swearing-in]. But I'm also going to be using one of our personal Bibles from home; it'll be different than the one I used when I was inaugurated as governor.