Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.'

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.

Bill Bradley

We are not going to turn our eyes away from what is happening in Grozny tonight,

Charles McAfee

When you see it and it breathes and you see young people and their parents and their eyes aglow, that's what really makes me proud.

Willie Ponder

Was it out of line? ... In our coach's eyes, yeah. In their coach's eyes, probably not.

Ryan Kolb

We actually played some of the toughest teams in the state and I think we opened the eyes of some of the higher-seeded teams.

Randy Houser

One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.

Raoul Dufy

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Ray Winstone

The thing about villains is most people play them with the shifty eyes and all that, whereas I play them as good guys. 'Cos everyone thinks they're a goodie, don't they?

James Blake

Well, probably, keeping my eyes on the road, making sure I get here all right,

Rick DiPietro

We were going to give him a ticker-tape parade when he showed up, ... but I couldn't keep my eyes open.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

William Shatner

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

William Shatner

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

Wentworth Miller

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

William Manchester

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

Wes Anderson

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

Zubin Mehta

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

Abraham Lincoln

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Agnes Obel

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

Tommy Dolde

These kids get introduced to it in our Junior Olympic program.

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.

Mike Collins

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

John Szabo

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

Richard Gardner

By year end, Microsoft will have introduced a major upgrade to every one of its significant platform and application products.

John Hurt

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

Lynn Schusterman

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

Cory Smith

The magnitude of this just stops you in your tracks.

Louise Hawkley

The magnitude of this association is quite stunning.

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.

Eric Rignot

What surprised us was the magnitude of the changes.

Jim Folkman

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

Richard Suzman

I was surprised by the magnitude of the effect.

Jim Lushine

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

Compay Segundo

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

Chino Moreno

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

Chet Faker

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

Ellie Goulding

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

Edward Norton

I like music, but I need to get outside more.

David Byrne

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

David Byrne

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

David Byrne

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.

Brittany Howard

To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.

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.

Mary Wortley Montagu

General notions are generally wrong.

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.

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.

Magda Apanowicz

I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.

Michelle Branch

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

Djimon Hounsou

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

Damien Rice

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

I. Stone

We opened May 2, and by the third week in June, we were selling out, ... Wicked.

Peggy Laskowski

We opened it up to the community, and it went pretty well. It was a lot of fun.

E. Hicks

We opened in probably the worst way you can open a school.

Arthur Hiller

Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.

Nigel Hamilton

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.

Winfried Vahland

When Octavia was introduced in India in 2001, it had opened up new segments.

Paul Horn

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

Christo

All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.

Damien Chazelle

'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

Vince Staples

Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

Paul Park

Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'

Brent Trout

We need to have this project done before the school opens.

Jim Wolfgang

We don't have any project that repeats what's going on in the classroom. All this is value-added.

Viktor Vekselberg

We are not shutting down all our projects while we wait for an answer.

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

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.

Don Shula

You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

David Byrne

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Colonel Sanders

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

Brooke Burke

I've always done ab work, even when I was pregnant.

Dennis Christopher

Work has been my lover - I've shied away from any commitments.