Carl Sagan Quotes

The origin of life happened in significantly less than 500 million years. ...Six days was once a popular hypothesis. ...A process that happens quickly is a process that is in some sense likely... this evidence suggests that the origin of life was in some sense easy, in some sense sitting in the laws of physics and chemistry.

Carl Sagan

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• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Business
  • Funny

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Community
  • Know
  • Office

• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Action

• When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Die
  • Day
  • Myself

• We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Attention
  • Band
  • Enough

• One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • Community
  • Respect

• D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Character
  • Small
  • Yourself

• Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Now
  • Smoke

• If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • House
  • Door

• The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • School
  • America
  • High

• If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Writing
  • Taken
  • Capacity

• Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • She
  • Bird
  • Wings

• Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Strong
  • Change
  • Me

• It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Society
  • Small

• I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Life
  • Travel
  • My Life

• It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Important
  • Know
  • Yourself

• I became a horror fan during the early 1960s, back when Hammer was putting out their groundbreaking 'Dracula' series with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and grew up watching 'Dark Shadows.'

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Up
  • Dark
  • Early

• I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette
  • Study

• When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.

  

  André Brink
  • Truth
  • Silence
  • Word

• I respond to authenticity and originality, and I've been a fan of Don Winslow's ever since 'The Power Of The Dog.'

  

  Chuck Hogan
  • Power
  • Dog
  • Authenticity

• The origin of life happened in significantly less than 500 million years. ...Six days was once a popular hypothesis. ...A process that happens quickly is a process that is in some sense likely... this evidence suggests that the origin of life was in some sense easy, in some sense sitting in the laws of physics and chemistry.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Life
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