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

• In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Morning
  • Body

• '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

• Channing Tatum. He's a cutie-pie, but he's also got swag. Before him, my crush was Brad Pitt forever!

  

  Christine Flores
  • Forever
  • Crush

• 'Poltergeist' was the film that scarred me for life. I saw it at such a young age - 5 or 6 years old - and it has one of the creepiest doll sequences with the clown, and ever since then, I've just been fascinated by dolls.

  

  James Wan
  • Life
  • Age

• I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Interesting
  • Knowledge

• Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Book
  • House
  • Rules

• I love meeting contributors and hearing how we inspire them to create art. I'm also proud of creating hundreds of jobs.

  

  Jon Oringer
  • Art
  • Proud

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

  

  Carl Sagan