Alan Stern Quotes

The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out to Neptune's orbit.

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• There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Want
  • Drug
  • Tell

• How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Without
  • Leisure

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Past
  • Always
  • Now

• The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Movie
  • Reality
  • Kind

• I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Think
  • Play

• I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Sacrifice
  • Values
  • Pragmatic

• I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Character
  • Think
  • Angry

• Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Why
  • Think
  • Death

• Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Light

• Persistance, dedication Consistent, motivation, resistance to stagnation of information, distribute it free to the entire population No hesitation, makin it public No privitazation from corporations

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Free
  • motivation
  • Dedication

• I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Meaningful
  • Farewell

• To the last moment of his breathOn hope the wretch relies;And e'en the pang preceding deathBids expectation rise.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Expectation

• Psychologically, the internet is very marxist. Everyone with a modem has access to the same information, so we all get jammed into a technological middle class.

  

  Chuck Klosterman

• Thanks for the timesThat you've given me.The memories are all in my mind.And now that we've comeTo the end of our rainbow,There's somethingI must say out loud.You're once, twiceThree times a lady.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Mind
  • Memories
  • Thanks

• Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Night
  • Evil
  • Sleep

• Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor-that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Work
  • Men
  • Heart

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• Will you not come home, brother? you have been long away,It's April, and blossom time, and white is the spray;And bright is the sun, brother, and warm is the rain, -Will you not come home, brother, home to us again?

  

  John Masefield
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• That which is most personal, is most interesting.

  

  William James
  • Interesting

• It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Men
  • Luxury
  • Rescue

• For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

  

  Margaret Oliphant
  • Mind

• The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out to Neptune's orbit.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Sun