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
  • Often
  • Can

• 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

• I think immigrants, when they're stressed, think that there's something wrong with America, when it's really just difficult to leave a country and all that you know.

  

  Akhil Sharma
  • Country
  • America

• I wasn't a happy kid. I felt like my mum ruined our chance of a better life, because when she remarried, we went to live in Bahrain, on a compound with a swimming pool, and she ruined it all.

  

  James Arthur
  • Life
  • Live
  • She

• Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

  

  Daphne du Maurier

• UNICEF is such a special organization, and to spread the word just makes me so happy.

  

  Charlotte Sullivan
  • Happy
  • Organization

• You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Emotional
  • Social
  • Rational

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

  

  Carl Sagan