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

Jeanette Winterson

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

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'.

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.

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.

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.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Kathleen Quinlan

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

Cecelia Ahern

What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?

Augusten Burroughs

It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?

Adam Ferrara

What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell, I'll never know why!

Colin Mochrie

What if hamsters fought in the American Revolution?

Orson Scott Card

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

Anne Lamott

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

Ann Voskamp

What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?

Duff Goldman

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

Dave Attell

Never drink alone, that's what they say. But you know what? If you drink you will never be alone, alright?

Brandon Lee

Some of my friends are scared right now, because the war is going on right now.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're scared of what you can't control

Bethenny Frankel

I'm scared of the unknown future.

Greg Hawkins

I won't go to a doctor. I'm scared he'll tell me I can't wrestle.

Teresa Davis

I was getting a little scared there for a minute.

Larry Petersen

I'd be scared to think of the number.

Sergei Liakhovich

He said I'm scared of him, but I am scared of nobody.

Dennys Reyes

I was so scared to see a doctor.

Mary Stewart

I was so scared I don't feel I have any entrails anymore.