Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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.

Kathleen Quinlan

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Wayne Knight

Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

Steve Zahn

I lived in Minnesota in a small town.

Vince Vaughn

Please don't take a turn to negative town.

Jacob Zuma

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

Ewan McGregor

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

Leon Krier

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Charles Bukowski

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Edward Abbey

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Aesop

If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

Richelle Mead

Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.

Romy Schneider

You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.

Umberto Eco

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

Truman Capote

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

William Sanderson

I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

Richard M. Nixon

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

Robert Rubin

I agree with what the Chairman Greenspan said whatever it is that he did say.

William Carey

The less said about me the better.