Carl Sagan Quotes

The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

Carl Sagan

• Earth
• Space
• Always

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• The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Home

• I always watch the work I do.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Work
  • Always
  • Watch

• My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Always
  • Perspective
  • Old

• I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Believe
  • Always
  • I Believe

• There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • You
  • Always
  • Emotional

• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Enemies
  • Forgive
  • Annoy

• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Mountains

• The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Change

• Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • May
  • Power
  • Nature

• I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Confidence

• I've always been a huge reggae fan.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Always
  • Been
  • Reggae

• If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Time
  • Political

• Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Space
  • Physics

• A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Always

• Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Want
  • Always
  • Hunger

• To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

  

  Ouida
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Innocence

• What's odd about the selfie stick is that while it might faintly improve the photo you'll post on Facebook, it definitely makes you seem like a shallow, awful clown to any bystanders in the humdrum physical space you're posing in.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Space

• Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.

  

  Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • She

• I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Faithful

• I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • God
  • Done
  • Guy

• The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Always