Ann Druyan Quotes
All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
Quotes to Explore
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
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If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
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I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.
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First, there was darkness, then came the Strangers.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.
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I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.
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All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
