Carl Sagan Quotes

This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.

Carl Sagan

Quotes to Explore

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

W. S. Merwin
- Hands
- Our
- Asleep
The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.

Ingmar Bergman
- Today
- House
- Night
I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.

Sam Graves
- Good
- Business
- Support
Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'

Randall Munroe
- House
- Working
- Office
This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

Harold Brodkey
- Mind
- Identity
- Speech
I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

Natasha Trethewey
- People
- May
- Poetry