Carl Sagan Quotes

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.

Carl Sagan

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• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Wonderful
  • Fake
  • Given

• Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Things
  • Popular
  • Moment

• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • Human
  • Curiosity

• But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • People
  • Different
  • Responsibility

• Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Gold
  • Lead
  • Silver

• I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Money
  • Day
  • Find

• To go back means defeat.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Back
  • Go
  • Defeat

• I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Things

• We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • People
  • Stage
  • Lucky

• Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Home
  • Meetings
  • Cultures

• In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Home
  • Knowledge
  • City

• I just have work to do; I just do it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Work
  • Just
  • Just Do It

• Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Story
  • Cold
  • Look

• The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Problem
  • Serious
  • Consequences

• Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Something
  • Script

• My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • War
  • Just
  • Cynicism

• I'm not a guy that ever got in a fight on the street and with the public and everybody.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Guy
  • Fight
  • Street

• Each demand for security, whether of employment, income or social position, implied the exclusion from such benefits of those outside the particular privileged group - and would generate demands for countervailing privileges from the excluded groups. Eventually, in such a situation every will lose.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy, behind-closed doors, we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to 'fast track' these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Food
  • Financial
  • Safety

• I actually had a job while I was acting and was a nursing student, which I had to drop due to my 9-5 job at the time. I managed an instrument room at a hospital in the Bronx.

  

  Dascha Polanco
  • Time
  • Job

• I like playing on this team. We actually been doin' real good. Got a different mix here. Most important thing is you gotta keep pickin' up in paces. That's why we're playing contentious play. We got top names, guys can still hit in the majors, guys been out of the game hittin' the ball, shockin' it. Don't have no old, old guys. Not sayin' they don't get a good job done. Fact is, they've been vice versa. So that's incentive right there. It's been a plus.

  

  Mickey Rivers
  • Different
  • Important
  • Things

• (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Forever
  • Between
  • Secretary

• We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Forever