Carl Sagan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
-
I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
-
I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
-
I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
-
Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
-
I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
-
I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.
-
My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.
-
My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.
-
Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
-
As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.
-
It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.
-
I work out sort of moderately.
-
The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.
-
You can never tell when princes will get squinty on you. You can never tell when they might suddenly feel their blood and go all royal.
-
Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.
-
Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
-
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
-
Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.
-
No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.
-
Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.
-
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
-
Jingoistic rhetoric and puerile self-congratulatory nationalism.
