Quotes about star
stars games two
And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star. Olga Korbut
stars war writing
Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're marketing tools, and I certainly don't worry about them when I'm writing. They are also inhibiting factors; you wind up not getting read by certain people, or not getting sold to certain people because they think they know what you write. You say science fiction and everybody thinks Star Wars or Star Trek. Octavia Butler
stars destiny roots
The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.
stars fighting destiny
We need the stars... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of ourselves as a purposeful, growing species. We need to become the adult species that the Destiny can help us become! If we're to be anything other than smooth dinosaurs who evolve, specialize and die, we need the stars.... When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We destroy ourselves. We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness.
stars giants phrases
I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken? Octavio Paz
stars rocks nerd
I'm a rock star among geeks, wonks, and nerds. Nouriel Roubini
stars play roles
To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example. Michael Caine
stars playing-someone fighter
When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.
stars age looks
A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.
stars character interesting
For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?
stars lying age
You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.
stars wife half
My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.
stars acting movie-star
To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.
stars america firsts
Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
stars character actors
I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
stars heart ifs
I felt like if I just gave my heart to what I was doing, I would automatically be a star. Merry Clayton
stars ideas games
After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind. Merlin Olsen
stars sky sorrow
Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us. Mason Cooley
stars astrology
Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
stars sky shooting
but I know you're the brightest shooting star in the sky - Astrid Michael Grant
stars war evil
Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless. Michael Franti
stars lying writing
The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep. Michael Chabon
stars commitment body
Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.
stars light self
Chances are, the aliens will not want to land on our backyard, or even the White House lawn, with their flying saucers. They may have tiny, robotic self-replicating probes which can reach near light speed and can proliferate around the galaxy. So instead of the Enterprise and huge star ships, the aliens might actually send tiny probes to explore the universe. One might land on our lawn and we won't even know. Michio Kaku
stars war civilization
We're headed for what is called Type 1 Civilization, planetary civilization. Type 2 would be stellar civilization, like Star Trek. Type 3 Civilization would be galactic, like Star Wars. We are Type 0. We get our energy from dead plants, oil and coal. But the question is: Will we make it? Will we make the transition from Type 0 to Type 1? It's not clear.
stars moving space
In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.
stars years next
Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.
stars war science
I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the Star Wars program designing weapons ignited by hydrogen bombs. I didn't want to do that. I thought about how many scientists had died in World War II.
stars technology reality
Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars.
stars shining want
When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.
stars compassion light
As Heinz Pagels has said, The challenge to our civilization which has come from our knowledge of the cosmic energies that fuels the stars, the movement of light and electrons through matter, the intricate molecular order which is the biological basis of life, must be met by the creation of a moral and political order which will accommodate these forces or we shall be destroyed. It will try our deepest resources of reason and compassion.
stars attitude believe
You know; when I look at the night sky and I see this enormous splendor of stars and galaxies, I sometimes ask the question, well how many worlds are we talking about? Well do the math, there are about 100 billion galaxies that are in the visible universe and each galaxy in turn contains about 100 billion stars, you multiply and you get about ten billion trillion stars. Well I think it is the height of arrogance to believe that we are alone in the universe, my attitude is that the universe is teaming, teaming with different kinds of life forms
stars science years
A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: "Hydrogen!" Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made, that we'll never know what stars are made of.