Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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• You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Weird

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Invisible

• I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Together
  • Cooking
  • Consistency

• It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • History
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • May
  • Power
  • Silence

• My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Style
  • Enthusiasm
  • Skill

• Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • More
  • Over
  • Atlas

• The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Time
  • Party
  • Single

• Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • You
  • City
  • Plan

• I don't intend to stay around any longer than I feel I can be No. 1.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Feel
  • I Can
  • I Feel

• We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Exercise

• I love anything quiz related.

  

  Natasha Hamilton
  • Love
  • Related
  • Quiz

• I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • House
  • Fall

• A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • People
  • Great
  • Education

• Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Society
  • Man
  • Progress

• It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Time
  • Different
  • Movie

• Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Path
  • Literature

• The great gold planet that is the mourning heat of the SunIs greater than all gold, more powerfulThan the tawny body of a Lion that fire consumesLike all that grows or leaps... so is the heartMore powerful than all dust.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Great
  • Powerful
  • Fire

• When you create something that is popular, when you create a solution, you're an innovator, and you solve problems for people and they like what you have to offer, of course you automatically make money.

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • People
  • Money
  • Popular

• If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • Up
  • Long

• I mean, 'Girls': I love 'Girls,' I watch 'Girls.' But it's a show that's very coastal. People in New York and people in L.A. and people in San Francisco will watch it. But I think in Middle America, for the most part, it probably isn't watched as much.

  

  Jeremy Allen White
  • People
  • America

• Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • People
  • Work
  • Fool

• All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

  

  George Orwell
  • Force
  • Exposed
  • Tyrannies

• I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson