Carl Sagan Quotes

'Do you understand what’s going on?''Not at all,' he shouted back. 'I can almost prove this can’t be happening.'

Carl Sagan

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• I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Decision
  • Actor
  • Films

• But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Age
  • Man
  • Shape

• My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Music
  • High
  • Always

• A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Relationship
  • Trust
  • Healthy

• I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Energy
  • Air

• The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Moving
  • Challenge
  • Moving Forward

• II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Know
  • Greek
  • Mythology

• People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Can
  • Often

• As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.

  

  Valerie June
  • High
  • Try
  • Guitar

• An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Simple
  • Study
  • English

• Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Miracle

• In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Different
  • Today
  • New

• I don't find it humiliating when they call me a psychopath or witch.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Me
  • Find
  • Witch

• I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Children
  • Why

• Crime is a form of 'unorganized' class struggle, and the lowest groups in the society have always committed a disproportionate number of crimes.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Society
  • Struggle

• So on and onwe walked without thinking of restpassing craters, passing fire,under the rocking sky of '41tottering crazy on its smoking columns.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Thinking
  • Crazy
  • Fire

• Think on this doctrine,-that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Men
  • Justice

• There’s a lot of positivity around, you just have to tap into it.

  

  Paddy Boom Scissor Sisters
  • Around
  • Positivity
  • Tap

• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Gay
  • Natural

• I was afraid of the dark until I was, like, 15 and slept with a nightlight.

  

  Chrissie Fit
  • Dark

• 'Do you understand what’s going on?''Not at all,' he shouted back. 'I can almost prove this can’t be happening.'

  

  Carl Sagan