Carl Sagan Believer Quotes & Sayings

Although reading is a private activity, leaving little trace on the historical record, its importance has led scholars to investigate the evidence that remains. Letters and diaries sometimes yield valuable insights into the response of actual readers. Another source for the responses of early-modern readers is the commonplace book and more generally the copying practice known as 'commonplacing'. H. J. Jackson has demonstrated how scholars can use the notes made by readers who used the margins of a book to converse with the author and (as it happens) with posterity. — Leslie Howsam

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing. — Ritchie Blackmore

When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet ... When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world ... — Kobo Abe

People are confused when you work for a national sports outlet and they've never seen you on a local affiliate. — Katie Nolan

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives. — Billy Connolly

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe — Carl Sagan

He who avoids misunderstandings,
Amused at the play of his own mind,
Is ever joyful. — Milarepa

Promptly peerless, hitherto peerless and hence peerless. — Bret Hart

Fuck the Yanks
And drink their wives
My mind is clear
The sky is bright
I'm happy as a horse's shite
Up came the Bottle of Smoke — Shane MacGowan

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones. — Joyce Maynard

You feel that a door will open and you will be summoned, and horrid things will happen to you before they let you go. You can not mark these houses with any homely flavor of living. When they are emptied after occupancy, they have the look of places where the blood has recently been washed away. — John D. MacDonald

Surely you're not saying that the life of a human and the life of an animal are of the same value?' he ventured.
'As humans we have much greater potential, of course,' His Holiness replied. 'But the way we all want very much to stay alive, the way we cling to our particular experience of consciousness-in this way human and animal are equal. — David Michie

It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down. — Antoine Fuqua