Carl Sagan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
-
There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.
-
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
-
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
-
We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
-
Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
-
I've actually done a lot of comedy.
-
As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
-
I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
-
Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
-
I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
-
If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
-
I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in 'The Court Jester' or 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' or James Stewart in 'Winchester '73.' But I also like a lot of modern films.
-
Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
-
If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.
-
I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.
-
Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
-
I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.
-
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
-
Prophecy is a poetry of change, social, political, moral, spiritual. It was with the prophetic model in mind that Shelley wrote of poets as the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
-
With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
-
I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
-
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
