Carl Sagan Quotes

Many harebrained interpretations were also widely available, especially in weekly newspapers.

Carl Sagan

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• The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Thee

• I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Parents
  • Stop
  • Beginning

• My favorite makeup look was for my 'Eyes Wide Open' video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Done
  • Eyes
  • Magic

• I think people appreciate honesty.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Honesty

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • You
  • Embrace

• One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Road
  • Down
  • Run

• I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Friends
  • College

• We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

  

  Wendell H. Ford
  • Problem
  • Need
  • Nation

• Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Charity

• To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Others
  • Copy
  • Pathetic

• Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch 'Mad Men' would watch 'House of Cards.' But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like 'The Walking Dead.' It was much younger than we thought.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • People
  • Men
  • House

• I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Today
  • Vote
  • Ralph

• According to the 2000 'Report of the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation,' the long-lasting effects of nuclear testing can be qualified in simple scientific terms: 'Radiation exposure can damage living cells, causing death in some of them and modifying others.'

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Long
  • Death
  • Simple

• Εἴπερ κακὸν φέροι τις, αἰσχύνης ἄτερἔστω· μόνον γὰρ κέρδος ἐν τεθνηκόσι·κακῶν δὲ κᾀσχρῶν οὔτιν᾽ εὐκλείαν ἐρεῖς.

  

  Aeschylus

• Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

  

  Louis Kronenberger

• Mr. Darwin begs me to say that he receives so many letters that he cannot answer them all. He considers that the theory of evolution is quite compatible with the belief in a God; but that you must remember that different persons have different definitions of what they mean by God.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • God
  • Different
  • Remember

• Some people seem to think football is like theatre and that everyone has to play the good guy. But I think that you transform when you cross the white line: you're not the same person as off it.

  

  Diego Costa
  • People
  • Good
  • Guy

• Il est doux de périr après ses ennemis.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• According to the bible, Heaven is completely perfect and Hell is completely evil. In Heaven, in order to keep everything completely perfect, everyone in it would have to follow a long, specific set of rules for it to be perfect. Heaven is prison. In Hell, everyone is already evil there, so no rules need to be set to make it completely evil. Hell is freedom.

  

  William Carroll
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Perfect

• A few months into my research, General Petraeus, who was then leading Central Command, invited me to go for a run with him and his team along the Potomac River during one of his visits to Washington. I figured I could interview him while we ran.

  

  Paula Broadwell
  • Team
  • River

• I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Many harebrained interpretations were also widely available, especially in weekly newspapers.

  

  Carl Sagan