Ann Druyan Quotes
Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
-
By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
-
Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
-
I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
-
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
-
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
-
A teacher should have a creative mind.
-
You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
-
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
-
I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
-
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
-
It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
-
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
-
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
-
Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
-
Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
-
If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
-
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
-
I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.
-
The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.
-
I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.
-
I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.
-
Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.
