Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Star stuff contemplating star stuff ...

Carl Sagan

All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star stuff.

Carl Sagan

Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star.

Carl Sagan

I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the Cosmos without using big numbers. I said "billion" many times on the Cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. But I never said "billions and billions." For one thing, it's too imprecise. How many billions are "billions and billions"? A few billion? Twenty billion. A hundred billion? "Billions and billions" is pretty vague. When we reconfigured and updated the series, I checked-and sure enough, I never said it.

Carl Sagan

Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.

Bill Bryson

But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud period I was slender and fit. I gained a profound respect for the wilderness and nature and the benign dark power of woods. I understand now, in a way I never did before, the colossal scale of the world. I found patience and fortitude that I didn't know I had. I discovered an America that millions of people scarcely know exists. I made a friend. I came home.

Bill Bryson

The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.

Bill Bryson

Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numberous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms-up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested-probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name.

Bethany Hamilton

I'm actually not star-struck. I like to give people their own space and admire them from a distance.

Bette Davis

Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.

Bette Davis

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Bette Davis

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

Art Alexakis

I just wanna be a rock star!

Antoine Fuqua

Sometimes violence in a very real way is much faster and more impactful because it feels real and you're watching it happen and you're watching your star do these things, so it's not like he's doing superhero moves.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, "My flower's up there somewhere. . . ." But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems... But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else... since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!... and it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh ...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.' I said nothing. 'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...' I said nothing. 'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink...' I said nothing. 'And it'll be fun! You'll have five-hundred million little bells; I'll have five-hundred million springs of fresh water...' And he, too, said nothing more.

Bill Bruford

Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.

Bill Budge

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Chadwick Boseman

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

I think Doug is starting to take it to another level.

I said, 'What now? In Huntington Beach?' So I had to start digging.

Sathya Baba

Start the Day with Love;Spend the Day with Love;Fill the Day with Love;End the Day with Love;This is the way to God.

Some of the things offensively are starting to come together,

My start let me down but I can't complain, it's a medal.

Chauncey Billups

Nah, it is what it is. We'll just start another one.

Rafael Palmeiro

Let me start by telling you this. I have never used steroids. Period.

I wish we would have started 50 years ago, but to not start now would be a real tragedy.

Andre Williams

I think everybody's starting to realize, we've got to make it work. We've got to get through it.

I think it will be the start of a trend.

Susan Butcher

Just in time for the start of the Iditarod.