All Quotes

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
‐‐ Paul Tillich

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down in New Zealand.
‐‐ Eleanor Catton

Astronautics, strictly speaking, will be concerned with voyages to other stars. Remarkably enough, to achieve such feats, we might not even have to leave the earth. It would suffice to accelerate the sun itself to a very high speed and let it drag all its planets with it.
‐‐ Fritz Zwicky

Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.
‐‐ Mary Roach

Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.
‐‐ Ellen Ochoa

Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends.
‐‐ Michael J. Massimino

Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job.
‐‐ Paul Davies

Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.
‐‐ Simon Newcomb

Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it's been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion.
‐‐ Andrea M. Ghez

Astronomers can look back in time. We can look at things as they used to be. We have an idea there was a Big Bang explosion 13.7 billion years ago. We have a story of how galaxies and stars were made. It's an amazing story.
‐‐ John C. Mather

Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.
‐‐ Saint-John Perse

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.
‐‐ Saul Perlmutter

Astronomers sometimes observe that a star of medium magnitude increases suddenly in size; a star invisible to the naked eye may become very brilliant and visible without any telescope - the appearance of a Nova.
‐‐ Frederic Joliot-Curie

Astronomers still can't decide what the shape of our universe is. Is it closed and finite, which is to say, is there a countable tally of all the galaxies that exist, even beyond the ones we can see? Or is it infinite? The latter possibility is still on the table.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
‐‐ Plato

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.
‐‐ Brian May

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
‐‐ Stephen Leacock

Asylum was good exposure for me and it is still shown quite often on television. I remember the special effects people had fun making a little doll that looked like me - which is not so easy - and it had to move along the floor.
‐‐ Herbert Lom

Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.
‐‐ Paul Rand

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

At 10 A.M. on the Friday after the election in 2010, David Cameron's team met in his room at the Westminster Bridge Park Plaza Hotel. Cameron was clear that, unable to form a majority government, they had to begin talks with the Lib Dems about forming a coalition. But in a rare example of strategic discord, George Osborne disagreed.
‐‐ Michael Ashcroft

At 10, I could walk down the street and see over everybody's head. I don't remember being little or having to look up at people. I think I was born 5 feet 10. It's not that I felt especially tall. I was wondering when everybody else was going to catch up.
‐‐ Judith Jamison

At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
‐‐ Dan Hill

At 10, I was intrigued by surgery, I wanted to be a surgeon for a long time. I love doctor shows and surgery shows. Blood is not an issue for me. I even took pictures once of me getting my blood taken.
‐‐ Jessica Biel

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.
‐‐ Rita Levi-Montalcini

At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.
‐‐ Simon Schama

At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.
‐‐ Tamsin Egerton

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.
‐‐ Nina Bawden

At 11, I went to live with my maternal nan and granddad temporarily, after my parents separated, and Nan would let me have a go on her piano. My grandparents were like something out of the Noel Coward play, 'This Happy Breed,' and it was magical to hear them sing music-hall songs.
‐‐ Jools Holland

At 11, I went to Misha's school for two summers. So when I wasn't in that school, I was taking classes at David Howard or Robert Denver's studios - kind of legendary places - and there was one summer where Alexander Godunov sort of took me under his wing; the memory's a little murky, but I felt as if I was his project for those weeks.
‐‐ Sascha Radetsky

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.
‐‐ Ahmet Zappa

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.
‐‐ Amar Bose

At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else's rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.
‐‐ Brian Dennehy

At 13, I was wearing plain t-shirts. Then I used to steal my mom's clothing. She had all these crushed-velvet shirts with French-cut sleeves. And, like, seersucker bell-bottoms.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- and 18-year-olds, but for some reason I got the part. It made me incredibly unpopular with my peers, but it was the English and drama teachers who stepped in to save me when others wanted me kicked out of the school.
‐‐ Dan Stevens

At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.
‐‐ Rose McGowan

At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.
‐‐ Dave Grohl

At 13 years old, I was doing grown-man things, so I know who I am, and I'm telling people who I am.
‐‐ Shy Glizzy

At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.
‐‐ La India

At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.
‐‐ Garth Risk Hallberg

At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.
‐‐ Gene Kelly

At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run five miles, and then go to school. Sometimes I would run behind the school bus, and the kids thought I was just crazy. I knew what I wanted.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.
‐‐ Adam Ferrara

At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.
‐‐ Adam Garcia

At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn