Eric Chaisson Quotes

At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.

Eric Chaisson

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• I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Language
  • Internet

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

  

  Barbara Block
  • People
  • Want
  • Sharks

• Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Place
  • Need

• What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Me
  • Public
  • Glory

• Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Business
  • Appreciate
  • Run

• When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Money
  • Director
  • Envy

• I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Country

• Come! let the burial rite be read - the funeral song be sung! - An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young - A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • She
  • Song
  • Funeral

• Bubbles! Oh come on Sharon! I'm fucking Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of fucking Darkness. Evil! Evil! What's fucking evil about a buttload of fucking bubbles!?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Evil
  • Prince
  • Bubbles

• A tropical Mussolini

  

  Carlos Fuentes

• I would say 'Flower' had a story. It is told through the environment.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Environment
  • Flower

• The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.

  

  Jason Fried
  • World
  • Reality
  • Risk

• I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

  

  Andrew Denton
  • People
  • Faith
  • Hate

• How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.

  

  Marlene Dietrich
  • She
  • Police

• We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can and does do so that it is brought home to people in a relevant way.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • People
  • Home

• It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that it's going to take a lot to undo that in our minds.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • Friends
  • Black
  • Community

• How strange to have failed as a social creature - even criminals do not fail that way - they are the law's 'Loyal Opposition,' so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Earth
  • Law
  • Broken

• The spooky ether was persistent. It took an Einstein to remove it from the Universe. ...Gradually, over the last twenty years, the vacuum has turned out to be more unusual, more fluid, less empty, and less intangible than even Einstein could have imagined. Its presence is felt on the very smallest and largest dimensions over which the forces of Nature act.

  

  John D. Barrow
  • Nature
  • Universe

• Life continued, the wheel turned, the earth moved, and even death—that delightful biological necessity—was an aspect of life.

  

  Avram Davidson
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Wheel

• At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.

  

  Eric Chaisson
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Special