Carl Sagan Quotes

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Carl Sagan

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• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Genius
  • Insanity
  • Line

• If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Hate

• The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Work
  • Limit

• I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it's Noah Hawley forever, that's also amazing.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Good
  • Myself

• So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.

  

  Feist
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Simple

• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Fun
  • Paris

• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Remember

• I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Love
  • Artist

• Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Government
  • Revolution

• The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Money
  • Why
  • Decision

• I really like clever men who challenge you.

  

  E. L. James
  • Men
  • Challenge
  • Clever

• I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Week
  • My Own
  • Bullets

• I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Day
  • Religion
  • Thoughts

• North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • America
  • Dark
  • Cooking

• Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Done
  • Pretty

• Silence on the part of public officials at the national level only serves to empower Islamophobes.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Silence
  • National
  • Empower

• "It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Will
  • Believed
  • Gonna

• With all due respect, the fact is, we had four dead Americans-was it because of a protest or because of guys out for a walk one night and decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Job
  • Night
  • Respect

• [T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting his ethics, which have their basis in religious conviction, is deceiving himself either about the true nature of government or his moral responsibility for his actions

  

  H. Verlan Andersen
  • True
  • Nature
  • Political

• There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Successful
  • Petty

• Giving kids the chance to see live theatre should not just be free, it should be compulsory.

  

  David Harewood
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Free

• I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Night
  • Star
  • Sun