Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Hope

When I was in my teens, Yehudi Menuhin, who was at work on his project 'The Music of Man,' introduced me to the great astronomer Carl Sagan. It was Sagan who first opened my eyes to the magnitude of the universe, and essentially to the notion of 'music of the spheres.'

Natalie Babbitt

I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothing small. If everything in the universe were increased in bulk one thousand diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been. To an understanding familiar with the relativity of magnitude and distance the spaces and masses of the astronomer would be no more impressive than those of the microscopist. For anything we know to the contrary, the visible universe may be a small part of an atom, with its component ions, floating in the life- fluid (luminiferous ether) of some animal. Possibly the wee creatures peopling the corpuscles of our own blood are overcome with the proper emotion when contemplating the unthinkable distance from one of these to another.

Martin Rees

Ever since Darwin, we've been familiar with the stupendous timespans of the evolutionary past. But most people still somehow think we humans are necessarily the culmination of the evolutionary tree. No astronomer could believe this.

John Bahcall

Every astronomer will remember when they first heard the results from WMAP, ... The announcement ... represents a rite of passage for cosmology from speculation to precision science.

Philip Emeagwali

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

Charles Jones

We're in a period in which all eyes have moved away from Bush. Having a term limitation is an invitation for turning your eyes from what was to what is likely to be in the future.

Napoleon Hill

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Evan Savoie

When he fell, I was the first one to jump down and help him. He stood up, his eyes just got wide and big ... then he just fell.

Charles Dickens

There is no limitation, there is positively no limitation' - opening his eyes wide, and standing on tiptoe - 'in point of expense! I have orders, sir, to put on my whole establishment of mutes; and mutes come very dear, Mr Pecksniff; not to mention t

Amy White

Until this, they were fine in my eyes, normal, (Reporter question: You trusted your sister?), yeah.

Martin Scorsese

Watching Dylan's eyes as he searches for these words, you see it all happening there,

Antwaan Randle

When we called it, my eyes lit up and I had to try to not give it away.

Mark Prior

What he said didn't matter as much as how he looked. His stuff and his eyes looked like he was still in the second inning.

O. Henry

The eyes shout what the lips fear to say.

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Kathryn Lasky

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.

Jeff Ulbrich

Last year, we introduced the 3-4, but at the same time, we retained all our 4-3 calls, we practiced them. It was kind of always like, I don't know if it was inevitable, but it kind of seemed like that at times, that we were going to go back.

Erich Leinsdorf

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

Agnes Obel

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

Mike Collins

We just introduced it, and we sold three right away, ... This will become a very big model for us.

John Hurt

Everybody, I think, that was in 'Harry Potter' was certainly introduced to an enormous lot of young people.

John Szabo

What's a joke? ... The referendum is non-binding. You object to an ordinance being introduced to make that binding?

Aaron Adams

So there was this big slug of decaying material that introduced a big slug of nutrients into the system.

Clark Johnson

The speaker is introduced at 7:30 and speaks for about 10 to 15 minutes. Then we have a round of prayer.

Kevin Rochlin

We're in uncharted waters. There has never been anything of this magnitude and this complexity.

Richard Suzman

I was surprised by the magnitude of the effect.

Lynn Schusterman

It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.

Joe Burke

We don't completely understand the rationale for the magnitude of the downgrade.

Kathy Stephens

I think people are just now realizing the magnitude of where we are.

Jim Folkman

I think it's a watershed year just in the magnitude of the increase.

Jim Lushine

It's probably going to stand for quite a while because of the magnitude of it there.

Scott Hand

It's not unusual for a transaction of the magnitude of ours to move to a second phase.

Jon Johnston

That's orders of magnitude more than what's at HP Archives, for sure.

Charlie Daniels

I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.

Charles Dudley Warner

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

Alanis Morissette

I started making music because I could.

Alanis Morissette

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

Alanis Morissette

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

Alanis Morissette

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

Al Jarreau

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

Al Jarreau

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

Chris Colfer

I grew up doing musical theater.

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Nicholas Haslam

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

John Doe

We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be,

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. I'm off the privilege notion now; I'm on to fairness.

Chris Eigeman

I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.

Albert Camus

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.

Loren Thompson

We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.

Greg Stein

The notion of packaged products is really going to go away.

Connie Mack

The notion is probably somewhere between $250,000 to $350,000.

Tom Coulson

When we first opened we had only six school buses. Now we have 24.

Butch Klein

When I got there, he opened the back of his vehicle and it was just packed,

Amr Moussa

There are no more relations to be opened until they go back to the right path of peace.

Paul Dergarabedian

I think the thought is that this movie would have opened bigger, because it's 'King Kong' and it's Peter Jackson.

Shigeru Yoshida

Japan has opened a new chapter in its history.

Emma Morrison

I saw that the were squeezing Brandy at the corners. So I had her do a push-bunt and that kind of opened it up for us.

Jamie Rains

Hayley was on fire. They had to get out on her, and that really opened things up for other people.

Rahul Dravid

He is not an option. We have two specialist openers and I have also opened and done well.

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Al Pacino

Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

Byron Katie

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

Ato Essandoh

Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project.

Carlos Fuentes

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

Roy Cooper

While many of the projects may have been worthy of consideration, the way they were funded makes them suspect in the public's mind,

E. P. Thompson

We feel that this is a win-win for the foundation, so we need to make sure we're selling the project on all fronts.

Les Claypool

For me to do a project - I have a pretty successful solo career, so - for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward.

Megan Smith

We very much use a prototyping model, play with ideas, and then get stuff started that way, which is how the greatest projects get started.

Barbara Jones

We had been talking about doing more projects together.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Bill Schmidt

Very enthusiastic and very intelligent. I know he'll work at it.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.