Carl Sagan Quotes

With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.

Carl Sagan

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• I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Different
  • Kind

• When all else fails, complicate matters.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Matters
  • Else
  • Complicate

• In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Impossible
  • Diversity

• God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Death
  • Desire

• There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Good
  • Women
  • Talent

• I would like to extend to you our deep appreciation and thanks for the position the United States has taken in support of the democratization process that has taken place in Tunisia, in Egypt, and what is attempting to take place in Libya.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Support
  • Taken
  • Deep

• Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness-there was always folks stupid enough to say, 'Where there’s smoke there’s fire,' when the saying should have been, 'Where there’s scandalous lies there’s always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mind
  • Fire
  • Stupid

• 'Well now,' he said, 'was I as good as you were when you were me?'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Good

• Sure my love is all crost Like a bud in the frostAnd there's no use at all in my going to bed,For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!

  

  Samuel Lover

• Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Philosophically, I don't believe in public funding for private sports.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Believe
  • Sports

• We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• 'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Dog

• It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard

• As I celebrate life, I can't help but think how young my mom was when she died of a heart attack at 53. My mom didn't get to meet her grandchildren, but I'm determined to watch mine grow up.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heart

• The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Culture
  • Education

• When I think about the most exotic, beautiful places, Porto is at the front of my mind. It's incredible, man. You have an idea of what Europe is like as an American, and people talk about Paris, Berlin and Stockholm, which are all great, but it wasn't until I went to Porto that I felt that idea of this exotic, beautiful, timeless place.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.

  

  Jeffrey Sachs

• Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Sleep

• Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't just be like, 'Alright, I got my hour down, people are coming to see me now. Now, I'm going to lean on the mike stand.' No, you gotta work even harder now. You got to top what you already did. Because they'll find someone else.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Comedy
  • Hours
  • Harder

• Team America must have been the biggest pain in the ass. And if we want to talk well-organized, they got Bill Pope, who is the DP on The Matrix, because he was just like, "I want to do something less serious."

  

  Neal Brennan
  • America
  • Team
  • Pain

• There was one exception to the rule that all our foes have committed the Decadence Assumption. Ho Chi Minh never underestimated America. His avowed hero was George Washington and he remained in awe of the U.S., all his life. He remains the only enemy leader who ever defeated us at war, and then only because our hubris (not decadence) got the better of us.

  

  David Brin
  • Life
  • America
  • War

• With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.

  

  Carl Sagan