Carl Sagan Quotes

Astronomically, the U. S. S. R. and the United States are the same place.

Carl Sagan

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Day

• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • New
  • New York
  • Driver

• I am surrounded by great people.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Great

• I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Good
  • Young
  • Guitar

• You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Important
  • Job
  • Learn

• The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Judgment
  • Collective

• I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • God
  • Success

• 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Greatest

• I've had so many injuries.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Many
  • Injuries
  • Had

• I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • People
  • Life
  • Know

• I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Important
  • Think

• When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Want

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Character
  • Power

• Kansas is great - and great for America, when, more and more, we honor every human life everywhere.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Great
  • America

• Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Great
  • Doing
  • Watching

• The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Movie
  • Seen
  • Million

• Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Green

• An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Men
  • Power
  • Justice

• Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Together
  • Civilization
  • Illusion

• It's a never-ending struggle, which is great. You can always get better! You can never get there. It's a journey with no arrival. And that's the beauty of it -- that you can always become better the next day. It's pretty cool to think about it in that sense. Tomorrow I will be a better player than I was today.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Struggle
  • Journey

• A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

  

  Everett Dirksen
  • Money

• How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Pay
  • Fortune
  • Debt

• Astronomically, the U. S. S. R. and the United States are the same place.

  

  Carl Sagan