Carl Sagan Quotes
Carbonaceous meteorites that fall to the Earth... have several percent to as much as 10 percent of complex organic matter in them.
Quotes to Explore
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
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If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
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I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.
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We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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The clock of doom had struck as fated;the poet, without a sound,let fall his pistol on the ground.
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I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.
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There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.
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Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.
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Carbonaceous meteorites that fall to the Earth... have several percent to as much as 10 percent of complex organic matter in them.
