Galaxy Quotes
319 Galaxy quotes by 219 unique authors
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If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least…
— Carl Sagan
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The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million…
— Douglas Adams
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And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy…
— Leonard Cohen
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You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined to become one…
— Ron Currie Jr.
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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
— Carl Sagan
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Whatever the reason, first place was always Solo, always, always, always, and second place was usually Chewbacca, because if you weren't the one saving the…
— Charles Yu
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He said you sparkle like a newborn galaxy and have more attitude than a rich kid with his daddy's Porsche.
— Darynda Jones
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The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the…
— Annie Dillard
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While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all…
— Alan Watts
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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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The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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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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Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the…
— Katherine Applegate
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We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden…
— Tom Stoppard
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Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck…
— Anne Rice
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For an hour, blended with all she could offer, something noble had been created which had nothing to do with the physical world. And from…
— Dorothy Dunnett
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All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for…
— Olaf Stapledon
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He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.
— Douglas Adams
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Okay. I've got a good one." Simon stroked Isabelle's hair feeling her lashes flutter against his neck as she closed her eyes. "A long time…
— Cassandra Clare
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It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set…
— Douglas Adams
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We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a…
— Wendy Mass
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But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in…
— Joan D. Vinge
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Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the…
— Gore Vidal
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219 authors contributed a total of 319 Galaxy Quotes, led by these top contributors: