Billion Quotes
961 quotes by 694 authors
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
— Ray Bradbury
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There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten…
— Carl Sagan
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There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like…
— Donald Miller
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The Doctor: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five moons, population 96…
— Russell T Davies
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If I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn't be able to give you up. Not to save…
— Stephenie Meyer
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We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing…
— Carl Sagan
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An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall…
— Benjamin Carson
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There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any…
— Jostein Gaarder
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You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't…
— Hillary Jordan
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Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only…
— Jodi Picoult
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He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves,…
— Lauren Oliver
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There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness…
— Michael Connelly
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The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we…
— John Perkins
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In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed,…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We…
— Bill Bryson
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I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion
— Caitlin Moran
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The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an…
— Carl Sagan
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The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.
— Terry Pratchett
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Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see -…
— Markus Zusak
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