Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Davies

The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe?

M. Night Shyamalan

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

Michael Leunig

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

Donna Tartt

I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.

Michael Behe

If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines the basis of life developed, you find an eerie and complete silence. The complexity of life's foundation has paralyzed science's attempt to account for it; molecular machines raise an as-yet-impenetrable barrier to Darwinism's universal reach.

Jacob Cruz

I was playing for Colorado, and we were in Arizona. I was just getting up, and one of my family members called me and told me what was happening. I remember just feeling shock. I still remember that eerie feeling.

Alfred Anderson

I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence.

Adam Gopnik

In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

William S. Burroughs

The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for words, letters, concepts, verbal concepts, other modes of expressions: for example, color.

Virginia Woolf

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

William Saroyan

What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.

William James

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

Ray Winstone

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

Tullian Tchividjian

Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.

Uma Thurman

Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.

Sarah Vowell

But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.

Samuel Beckett

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

Richard Dawkins

The universe doesn't owe you a sense of hope

Yoko Ono

The universe is a space bigger than all of us we are part of.

Friedrich Schiller

The universe is a thought of God.

Louis Pasteur

The universe is asymmetric.

James Cook

Faith puts the power of the universe at your disposal.

R. Buckminster Fuller

You don't belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you're here to serve.

Lee Smolin

There is nothing outside the universe

Arnold Bennett

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

Cheryl Strayed

The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.