Carolyn Porco (Carolyn C. Porco) Quotes
Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
-
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.
-
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?
-
I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
-
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.
-
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
-
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might, And by eternall doome of Fate's decree, Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
-
If we do not play 'Alabama,' our fans would kill us.
-
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!
-
I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.
-
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.
-
I had discipline in other areas but certainly not in athletics.
-
I kind of like not knowing how to do something - it's more exciting.
-
Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.
-
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.
-
I'll write songs wherever I am.
-
'Avatar' is staggering. It's seismic. Evolutionarily speaking, it is cladogenesis in a thunderclap.
-
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
-
Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.
-
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
-
Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'
-
When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
-
Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.
