Alan Stern Quotes

I expect New Horizons will see more that Hubble cannot see.

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• I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Science

• You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • City
  • Nuclear Weapons

• The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Diversity
  • Filmmaking

• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

  Adam Driver
  • saw
  • Six
  • Pilot

• There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Story
  • Should
  • Often

• I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Best
  • Got
  • Supermodel

• I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK. I love the limelight after all.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Storm
  • Limelight
  • Lull

• But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Girl
  • Goal
  • Faithful

• So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • School
  • Happened
  • Graduation

• Like anyone else, I enjoy my days off.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Like
  • Enjoy
  • Days

• These cats drink champagne and toast to death and pain, Like slaves on a ship talking about who's got the flyest chain

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Death
  • Pain
  • Champagne

• The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Real
  • May
  • Imagination

• Social phenomenology is the science of my own and of others' experience. It is concerned with the relation between my experience of you and your experience of me. That is, with inter-experience. It is concerned with your behaviour and my behaviour as I experience it, and your and my behaviour as you experience it.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Experience
  • Science

• The world knows only two, - that's Rome and I.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • World

• Sometimes people think I'm gay. A lot of people have asked me if I'm gay. I answer, 'Look, not to my knowledge. But I'm still young, it could be that in the future, I'll find out that I'm gay.'

  

  Anderson Silva
  • People
  • Future
  • Knowledge

• A lot of people don't like to win. They actually don't know how to win, and they don't like to win because down deep inside they don't want to win.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Deep

• The arts are suffering amongst public schools, but also, minority theater companies are struggling, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression through the arts.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Suffering

• The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

  

  Alan Parker
  • People

• Any nominee is going to have to earn my support.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Support

• The appreciation of the connoisseur is the highest pleasure of the artiste.

  

  Norman Spinrad
  • Pleasure
  • Appreciation
  • Artiste

• Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see—and seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning! Then the hand lets the veil fall and you are alone, lost in the fog again, and you stumble on toward nowhere, for no good reason!

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Hand
  • Secret
  • Meaning

• Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • People
  • Dumb

• There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect.

  

  Eric Dane
  • Architecture

• I expect New Horizons will see more that Hubble cannot see.

  

  Alan Stern