Carolyn Porco (Carolyn C. Porco) Quotes
For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a heart-stopper, and surely one of our most thrilling results.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
-
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
-
I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
-
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
-
'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
-
I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
-
I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
-
That’s because you can’t hold something in your mind but a little while, said Jem. It’s different with grown folks, we-
-
The human race has only two unlimited capacities: one for suffering and one for lying. I want to fight religion as the root of all human lying and the only excuse for human suffering.
-
The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.
-
Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.
-
It's better to train for 4-5 hours a week than to do ten hours one week then nothing for two weeks. It helps your body adapt and also maintains your fitness.
-
Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
-
A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.
-
I really feel that a concert is a place where you can bring up topics, and you can actually discuss them and feel them and have a great time.
-
Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.
-
Some people think I've had a nose job. I've never had anything like that done, but I have no judgement of anyone that does.
-
Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling 'Bart,' and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.
-
Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
-
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
-
No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.
-
When I see Liz Taylor with those Harry Winston boulders hanging from her neck I get nauseated. Not figuratively, but nauseated! All I can think of are how many dog shelters those diamonds could buy.
-
The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.
-
For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a heart-stopper, and surely one of our most thrilling results.
