Sean M. Carroll Quotes

We are not significant on the cosmic scale.

Sean M. Carroll

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• I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Different
  • She
  • Beautiful

• You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Marriage

• I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Up
  • Change
  • Year

• Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Thoughts
  • Habit
  • Circumstances

• You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Forever
  • Stupid
  • Knows

• The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Action
  • Danger
  • Tax

• Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Sun
  • Flower
  • Breezes

• This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Purpose

• Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

  

  William J. Mayo
  • People
  • Science
  • Given

• A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Written
  • Cut
  • Uttered

• One of my pleasantest memories as a kid growing up in New Orleans was how a bunch of us kids, playing, would suddenly hear sounds. It was like a phenomenon, like the Aurora Borealis -- maybe. The sounds of men playing would be so clear, but we wouldn't be sure where they were coming from. So we'd start trotting, start running-- 'It's this way! It's this way!' -- And sometimes, after running for a while, you'd find you'd be nowhere near that music. But that music could come on you any time like that. The city was full of the sounds of music.

  

  Danny Barker
  • Men
  • Kids
  • Sometimes

• The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

  

  Ray Brown
  • Time
  • Home
  • Always

• The F.B.I. was very happy with the article they produced, which was entitled, "The Black Merchants of Hate," that came out in early 1963. What's significant about that piece is that that became the template for what evolved into the basic narrative structure of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Happy
  • Black
  • Hate

• Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Happens
  • Cosmic

• But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked. “Make me”, I replied. “Beg pardon?” “Make me”, I repeated. Her eyes widened like saucers. “You mean like incest?” she asked. “Don’t give me your family problems, Jen. I have enough of my own.” “Like what, Oliver?” she asked, “like just what is it he makes you do?” “The ‘right things’”, I said. “What’s wrong with the ‘right things’?” she asked, delighting in the apparent paradox.

  

  Erich Segal
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Said

• We are not significant on the cosmic scale.

  

  Sean M. Carroll
  • Significant
  • Cosmic
  • Scales