Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.


Carl Hiaasen

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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to ...
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The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
CARL SAGAN
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pi...
CARL SAGAN
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we ...
CARL SAGAN
The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.
CARL SANDBURG
Ama me fideliter!Fidem meam noto:De corde totaliterEt ex mente tota,Sum presentialiterAbsens in remo...
CARL ORFF
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
CARL ROWAN
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
CARL SANDBURG
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called
CARL SAGAN
I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn&#...
CARL YASTRZEMSKI
You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
CARL YASTRZEMSKI
And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
CARL YASTRZEMSKI
I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
CARL YASTRZEMSKI
First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where t...
CARL WILSON
Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than...
CARL WILSON
In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
CARL WILSON
I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Me...
CARL WILSON
I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Count...
CARL WILSON
I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
CARL WILSON
I've made some films for the military that are teaching things like cultural awareness and leade...
CARL WEATHERS
When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's real...
CARL WEATHERS
My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed ...
CARL WEATHERS
I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of ...
CARL WEATHERS
I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywo...
CARL WEATHERS
I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences w...
CARL WEATHERS
What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation c...
CARL STOKES
My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won&...
CARL STOKES
All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pul...
CARL SANDBURG
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
CARL SANDBURG
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
CARL SANDBURG
Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
CARL SANDBURG
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
CARL SANDBURG
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
CARL SANDBURG
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
CARL SANDBURG
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awak...
CARL SANDBURG
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of...
CARL SANDBURG
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
CARL SANDBURG
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
CARL SANDBURG
If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than &#...
CARL SAFINA