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.

Jim Fischer

We're probably going to get several more inches of rain on this side of the mountain.

Bill Renner

We thought we had a mismatch at wide receiver and their cornerbacks because we're six inches taller, ... Peter can throw it deep.

Jim Bowers

I measured it this morning ... and there was about 13 inches on my back deck.

John C. Maxwell

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

Tom Brokaw

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Charles Spurgeon

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Nick Park

You need to find things like having your actors move 2 inches in a day pretty exciting.

Tommy Williams

From midnight to 4 a.m., we recorded about 2 inches of rain and over a half-inch more from then until 8 a.m..

Cassandra Clare

Nothing less than 7 inches.

J. I. Packer

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.