Porco Quotes & Sayings

Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings and goings, how they evolve, when they appear and disappear. — Carolyn Porco

If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think. — Carl Safina

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. — Walter J. West

There is a powerful recognition that stirs within us when we see our little blue ocean planet in the skies of other worlds. In an instant we can see how small, fragile, and alone we all really are. — Carolyn Porco

I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up. — Nora Ephron

For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a heart-stopper, and surely one of our most thrilling results. — Carolyn Porco

We had convinced ourselves that conditions wouldn't be right for seeing spokes on the lit side of the rings until about 2007, ... But this finding seems to be telling us that conditions on the dark side of the rings are almost as good right now for seeing spokes. — Carolyn Porco

If I had to watch her kiss another guy, I wouldn't be responsible for my reactions. I couldn't have her, but I didn't want anyone else to have her. — Jen McLaughlin

There are absolutely no high-maintenance items in my house of any kind. Plants, pets or husbands. — Carolyn Porco

Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was, — Carolyn Porco

The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God. — Carolyn Porco

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind. — Rockwell Kent

We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today, — Carolyn Porco

We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent. — Carolyn Porco

All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven. — Carolyn Porco

If you are going to be courageous, an example for all those who are ready to step into their power, then you must be willing to show the world all of who you are. You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs. — Debbie Ford

There were some folks - usually women - who claimed the smile that graced his sensuous lips when those fists connected with another man's flesh was enough to make any woman — Liliana Hart

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it. — Thomas A Kempis

I lived in my head most of the time - a lonely and messed up place - and suddenly there was a higher force called Allah I could lean on. A companion, who'd travel with me this road less trodden... My life. Islam means surrendering yourself to God. — Fadia Faqir

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets, — Carolyn Porco

While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the imaging team and started working on data from Saturn, ... With all that data coming in, the imaging team didn't have enough hands or scientists to work on all of it. — Carolyn Porco

That will be fine," Ethan muttered. "Now breathe through the pain." "Come over here," she grunted. "I'll show you how to breathe through my fist. — Robyn Peterman

The problem with longstanding friends
they felt utterly free to go too far and to enjoy every step they took over the line. — Maya Rodale

Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system. — Carolyn Porco

Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population. — Moshe Dayan

It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem. — Robbie Williams

It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to take our images and composite them in an artful way, which is one of my cardinal working goals. It's about poetry and beauty and science all mixed together. — Carolyn Porco

Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding. — Carolyn Porco

Cassini is different
it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular. — Carolyn Porco

The quest for the truth, in and of itself,
Is a story that's filled with insights. — Carolyn Porco

The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change. From the scarified Nubian priests of 2000 B.C., to the tattooed acolytes of the Cybele cult of ancient Rome, to the moko scars of the modern Maori, humans have tattooed themselves as a way of offering up their bodies in partial sacrifice, enduring the physical pain of embellishment and emerging changed beings. Despite — Dan Brown

I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I believe that many parents are too wrapped up in themselves. — J.K. Rowling