Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

Iain Banks

I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.

Paris Hilton

I'm very scared to do it. What if I don't come back? With the whole light-years thing, what if I come back 10,000 years later, and everyone I know is dead? I'll be like, 'Great. Now I have to start all over'.

Jeanette Winterson

Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image of us based on the radio bubble of our television shows. But this will happen only if the aliens can somehow determine which type of signal comes closer to the truth of who we are, and what our cosmic identity deserves to be.

Martin Amis

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

Paul Davies

The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we have radio telescopes here on Earth because they see Earth as it was 1,000 years ago. Nothing can travel faster than light, so however good their instruments they can't see in affect the future. So there is no particular reason they should be sending us messages at this time.

Kathleen Quinlan

At this point in my career, Apollo 13 is a million light years away.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.

Alicia Keys

Let's keep trying to reach that higher ground. I forever want to reach that higher ground.

Lord Byron

Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.

Atharva Veda

Serving Him, all treasures are obtained. Worshipping God, honor is obtained. Working for Him is never in vain; forever and ever, sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.

Unknown

May your heart be warm and happy With the lilt of loud laughter Every day in every way And forever and ever after.

Granth Sahib

My God is forever Immaculate and Pure; with a pure mind, He can be found.

Denis Diderot

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Edgar Allan Poe

No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever.

Elbert Hubbard

Conformists die, but heretics live forever.

Rick Perlstein

Over fifteen years of studying the American Right professionally - especially in their communications with each other, in their own memos and media since the 1950s - I have yet to find a truly novel development, a real innovation, in far-right 'thought.'

Stephany Smith

Whenever you miss three lay-ups, and fifteen free-throws you're not going to win the game.

Jerry Mathers

I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.

Brian Kenny

I don't go to church, and I don't know one person who does. Fifteen years ago, I didn't know one person who didn't.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years.

Kate Voegele

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

Larry Hagman

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

Sibel Edmonds

I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

Albert Einstein

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.