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

• My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Why
  • Enough
  • Talent

• I am surrounded by great people.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Great

• Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Important
  • Support
  • Taken

• 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

• As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Body

• A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

  

  Phyllis McGinley

• It's funny, because 'Arrested Development' is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of the next things I did was a show called 'Quintuplets' for a season for Fox, and this was while 'Arrested Development' was on. I used to go over and hang out on their set.

  

  Andy Richter
  • Different
  • Funny

• One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Years
  • Results
  • Products

• So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.

  

  Fred Thompson
  • Relationship
  • Beginning
  • Choices

• A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Affairs
  • Sharpen
  • Grindstone

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

  

  Carl Sagan