Ellie Arroway Quotes & Sayings

Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, "Gentlemen, let's proceed," and sensing Ellie's frown would add, "Sorry, Miss Arroway, but I think of you as one of the boys." The highest compliment they were capable of paying was that in their minds she was not overtly female. — Carl Sagan

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort. — Zach Galifianakis

I love Dylan. I only met him once, about three years ago, back at the Kettle of Fish on MacDougal Street. That was before I went to England. I think both of us were pretty drunk at the time, so he probably doesn't remember it. — Jimi Hendrix

A good plan is founded on a clear understanding of your goals for the long-term and the short-term. — Lisa Banks

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult. — Don Johnson

We knot our imagination to fear to creat aham. Tapasya and yagna are two tools that can help us unknot the mind, outgrow fear and discover atma, our true self. — Devdutt Pattanaik

If I say 'there is no God', I disrespect your belief; how when you say 'there is a God' you do not disrespect mine? — M.F. Moonzajer

We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are. — Carl Sagan

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence. — Tariq Ali

All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe - not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith. — Lee Strobel

You will not get a Google alert when you fall in love. — Tom Brokaw

During the socialist period, the government became too big. That created a crowding-out effect in the private economy, and it gave everybody the need to pay more taxes in order to finance this big government. We are against big government. We want a smaller and more efficient government. — Antonis Samaras

I was a handful growing up. — Olivia Wilde

So you see how difficult it is to understand one another, my dear angel, how incommunicable thought is, even between two people in love. — Charles Baudelaire

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.46 — Walter Isaacson

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years. — Richard Attenborough