Universe Quotes
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For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.
Billy Porter
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My junior year, I went to an LSAT-prep course. I flipped over my test and thought, 'You bastards.' I walked out and went to Waffle House. That's where I had what I call 'The Waffle House Epiphany': I didn't want to be a lawyer. I wanted to make a dent in the universe.
Alexis Ohanian
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The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
Malcolm X
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I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor Karen Berger. She told me, 'There's no masturbation in the DC Universe.' To which my reaction was, 'Well that explains a lot about the DC Universe.'
Neil Gaiman
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The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Francis Bacon
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They want to hurry things quicker than the Almighty means them to go. I don't altogether blame them either, for I'm mortally impatient myself. But it s no good thinking that saying a thing should be so will make it so. We're not the Creator of this universe. You've got to judge results according to your instruments.
John Buchan
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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
Bernard Berenson
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Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
Carl Sagan
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I now spend a good part of my day dreaming of times past, present and future. As I try to survive on 15 hours sleep a day, I have plenty of time to enjoy vivid dreams. Being completely wheel-chaired doesn't stop my mind from roaming the universe - on the contrary!
Arthur C. Clarke
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I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.
Jacques Lacan
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I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
Albert Einstein
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I was saddened to learn of the passing of Leonard Nimoy, a fellow space traveler because he helped make the journey into the final frontier accessible to us all.... Indeed, there are strange new worlds to explore -- to seek out new life and start new civilizations. It is time to boldly go where no man -- or woman -- has gone before. Thanks to Leonard Nimoy and his beloved Mr. Spock, the bar has been set high for us to continue humanity's quest to probe outward in the universe.
Buzz Aldrin
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
Waris Ahluwalia
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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
Barry Lopez
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If you walk on the path of truth all the powers in the universe help you.
Arvind Kejriwal
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The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
Don Herold
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The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe.
Paul Tillich
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Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
Dan Lipinski
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I started reading DC stuff much later in my life. You realize that there's a huge difference between the Marvel universe and the DC universe and the characters that own it.
David Harewood
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You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.
Eckhart Tolle
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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George Carlin
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I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.
Yayoi Kusama
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The universe is one of God's thoughts.
Friedrich Schiller
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Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.
Dimitar Sasselov