Carolyn Porco (Carolyn C. Porco) Quotes

Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

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• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Model

• Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Problem
  • Champagne
  • Both

• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Myself

• I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Look
  • Successful

• I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Famous
  • Blue

• The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Society
  • Imagination
  • Human

• For we by conquest, of our soveraine might, And by eternall doome of Fate's decree, Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Fate

• If we do not play 'Alabama,' our fans would kill us.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd

• I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping!

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Up
  • She
  • Friend

• I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.

  

  Jennifer Pahlka
  • Up

• The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot for me to quiet my brain and anything that requires 100% of my attention and focus I find very soothing and that is the closest I get to being content.

  

  Dax Shepard
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Brain

• I had discipline in other areas but certainly not in athletics.

  

  Lucas Till
  • Discipline

• I kind of like not knowing how to do something - it's more exciting.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor

• Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

  

  Ali Babacan
  • Strong
  • Quality

• On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

  

  James Callis
  • Time
  • Why

• I'll write songs wherever I am.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala

• 'Avatar' is staggering. It's seismic. Evolutionarily speaking, it is cladogenesis in a thunderclap.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi

• When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Writing

• A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Education

• The bluebird is well named, for he wears a coat of the purest, richest, and most gorgeous blue on back, wings, and tail; no North American bird better deserves the name, for no other flashes before our admiring eyes so much brilliant blue.

  

  Arthur Cleveland Bent
  • Name
  • Coat
  • Bluebird

• I play football in training all the time with my male friends, who are also professionals. But playing together in competition? I just don't see it. We have the ability, we have the technique, we have the tactical understanding, but there are physical limitations. You can't get away from that.

  

  Marta Vieira da Silva
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Together

• Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

  

  Carolyn Porco
  • Understanding
  • Spokes
  • Saturn