"In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian."

-- Carl Sagan

#Astrology Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Together Quotes

“Hey, Amy, did you ever want to, like, get on the conveyor belt and see what happened? Like,'Hey don't mind me, I'm just hanging with cargo'?”
“... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.”
“A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (1964). “Cold Friday”, New York
“But bringing people together is what music has always done best.”

Source : Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.16, Penguin
“I don't like allegory.”
“On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.”
“when you're on the street, and, as you're walking along, a woman turns the corner going away from you, and for an instant you have a glimpse of the side of her face, of the gesture of her shoulder, the shape of her body, and you are committed... You are in love for an instant, or your senses are rocked for an instant. That person then disappears and is lost to you forever...”
“The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.”

Source : "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. January 10, 2006.

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