Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
EDGAR WILSON NYE States. Of course, I'm speaking only from memory.
EDGAR WILSON NYE Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of ...
BILL NYE Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
BILL NYE The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
BILL NYE Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
BILL NYE The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
BILL NYE Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybod...
BILL NYE Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding e...
BILL NYE Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
BILL NYE NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration...
BILL NYE Science rules!
BILL NYE I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don...
BILL NYE When one shows up in jeans and a T-shirt, I strongly feel that the audience reacts in a very differe...
BILL NYE If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of lau...
BILL NYE Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers abou...
BILL NYE If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll ...
BILL NYE Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
BILL NYE Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of ext...
BILL NYE If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent ...
BILL NYE Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many w...
BILL NYE Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious env...
BILL NYE Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
BILL NYE As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over ...
BILL NYE Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
BILL NYE I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can ev...
BILL NYE But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellec...
BILL NYE You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is ...
BILL NYE Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.
BILL NYE I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000...
BILL NYE Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.
BILL NYE When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.
BILL NYE If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilizati...
BILL NYE I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I...
BILL NYE There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and e...
BILL NYE The exterior of the building is so remarkable and so unique, with its Normandy inspiration. I mean, ...
BOB NYE It's really kind of tragic that the work of the state tuberculosis commission and the doctors and th...
BOB NYE The bottom line is it's going to cost a heck of a lot of money to restore these buildings. Could the...
BOB NYE You look at this stuff and you kind of feel like you're in 'the presence,' you know?
BOB NYE I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I sti...
BILL NYE When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seein...
BILL NYE Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk
BILL NYE Our world is driven by our remarkable ability to carefully measure and divide units of time. In a re...
BILL NYE My dad was fascinated with sundials. He photographed hundreds of them and wrote a book about them. H...
BILL NYE Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who se...
JOSEPH NYE One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.
BILL NYE I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve ...
BILL NYE There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Ea...
BILL NYE I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea o...
BILL NYE I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I...
BILL NYE We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. T...
BILL NYE I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at on...
BILL NYE Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real...
BILL NYE What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here...
BILL NYE Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
BILL NYE My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a b...
BILL NYE Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
BILL NYE It ain’t how hard you are when you’re standing over top of someone that really matters. It’s h...
CEDRIC NYE All around him the branches of the trees had frozen solid, reaching out white fingers of glass that ...
ALEX NYE To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ...
BILL NYE It's really kind of tragic that the work of the state tuberculosis commission and the doctors and th...
BOB NYE She watched as the dancing lights of madness swirled and flickered in his eyes like the fires of hel...
CEDRIC NYE He's not going to get re-elected, right...so he can just go for it!
BILL NYE We can't send living things to another planet. That might screw it up,
BILL NYE There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other i...
BILL NYE It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs.
BILL NYE You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go ...
BILL NYE It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens tha...
BILL NYE As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always ...
JOSEPH NYE We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to ...
JOSEPH NYE When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity.
CEDRIC NYE When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seein...
BILL NYE The process of testing claims is called science. Now, If you have a claim that can't be tested thats...
BILL NYE It's going to destroy something I don't think is that broken.
GREG NYE Matt's coming in, but you really don't want to have to lean on a freshman. It's very different than ...
GREG NYE If we can get into the top 100, being a snowbound team, we're good. If we get a couple key players a...
GREG NYE You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a st...
BILL NYE Fiona fixed a slice of bread to the toasting fork and held it out to the flames. So began the ritual...
ALEX NYE Here's your first lesson in Zompoc 101, kid. The easiest way to kill a zombie is to kill it before i...
CEDRIC NYE I'm a man born to blood and pain, and peace would be a killing blow for me.
CEDRIC NYE I once fed a dog-fight operator to the dogs he had abused for so long, and do you want to know somet...
CEDRIC NYE The nurse snorted, and said. “All men are pigs.”
“Not all men.” Jango said. “Some of...
CEDRIC NYE I promise not to hurt you, unless you try to take my shit. Then I'll twist your head off and hide it...
CEDRIC NYE I have to get stronger, harder, and faster. The only way to get hard enough to walk the Apocalypse R...
CEDRIC NYE You take all of our pain, you are the spine. You are the blood soaked rag that holds closed the woun...
CEDRIC NYE Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow.
CEDRIC NYE When it's my time, and the reaper calls my name, there will be no stink of fear on me, and my only w...
CEDRIC NYE To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash.
BILL NYE I still think of myself as an actor,
LOUIS NYE The government really needs to focus on recruiting people for their first job and first opportunity....
JOSEPH NYE We appear to be turning to a conservative cycle in the major countries. President Bush's administrat...
JOSEPH NYE The resistance to globalization has a new quality today. You have populist leaders in developing cou...
JOSEPH NYE In recent years, both China and India have adopted foreign policies that have increased their attrac...
JOSEPH NYE She has enormously improved the Wilson School, ... I've said to my successor, you've got to look ove...
JOSEPH NYE They're nice ideals, appropriate especially in this setting celebrating Woodrow Wilson, but they're ...
JOSEPH NYE She did a good job of explaining what has been a veiled policy, ... She has a vision of democracy in...
JOSEPH NYE getting people to sit in the back office and connect dots has not been their strong suit. Now they k...
JOSEPH NYE I think most Americans still hope for a peaceful and beneficial future with China. As (former) Presi...
JOSEPH NYE The(re is no) End
BILL NYE If you’re a creationist reading this, and you want to remark something like, “Well, that’s the...
BILL NYE I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have ...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I do think that all of us think in poems.
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some p...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is every...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're l...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go ba...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE The Rider

A boy told me
if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness c...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cy...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson sin...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE 'Granted' is about a lively young woman who does a fairy godmother a good turn and is given ...
JODY LYNN NYE You have a very good sense of endings. These are excellent. You're a very good writer.
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I've always been amazed by the depth of people's responses in Pittsburgh. People in Pittsburgh seem ...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
f...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I am looking for the human who admits his flaws
Who shocks the adversary
By being kinder n...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,
write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.
...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
EDGAR DEGAS But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thou...
EDGAR WINTER It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in on...
EDGAR DEGAS If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bit...
EDGAR WRIGHT It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.
EDGAR SALTUS I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, a...
EDGAR WRIGHT For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brillianc...
EDGAR WRIGHT I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and e...
EDGAR WRIGHT I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that...
EDGAR WRIGHT Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you hav...
EDGAR WRIGHT There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulato...
EDGAR WRIGHT The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ult...
EDGAR WRIGHT Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Ca...
EDGAR WRIGHT I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
EDGAR WRIGHT When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very ...
EDGAR WRIGHT Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.
EDGAR WRIGHT I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia...
EDGAR WRIGHT I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't c...
EDGAR WRIGHT I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascina...
EDGAR WRIGHT Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in...
EDGAR WRIGHT We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the...
EDGAR WRIGHT If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
EDGAR WRIGHT We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the...
EDGAR WRIGHT When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and fac...
EDGAR WRIGHT Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see t...
EDGAR WRIGHT I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complac...
EDGAR WRIGHT Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.
EDGAR WRIGHT I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Not...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a l...
EDGAR RAMIREZ In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to liv...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Duran is a mythological figure in Latin America. He grew up in a time of turbulence because Panama w...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
EDGAR RAMIREZ I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot a...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different ...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are ei...
EDGAR RAMIREZ You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the ...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It...
EDGAR RAMIREZ In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
EDGAR RAMIREZ I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different fro...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us hum...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your frie...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You ge...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I'm restless. I'm all the time here and there and trying to get myself busy and creative. It...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
EDGAR RAMIREZ Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or wi...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I believe in the will. I believe in discipline. I believe in the organization. I believe in the rigo...
EDGAR RAMIREZ War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a vi...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. So...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.
EDGAR RAMIREZ An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
EDGAR QUINET Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinite...
EDGAR QUINET It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy ...
EDGAR QUINET The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear with...
EDGAR QUINET Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, b...
EDGAR QUINET Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
EDGAR QUINET I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so fo...
EDGAR MITCHELL We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on th...
EDGAR MITCHELL At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik ...
EDGAR MITCHELL Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful abou...
EDGAR MITCHELL My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my h...
EDGAR MITCHELL We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet som...
EDGAR MITCHELL I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is materi...
EDGAR MITCHELL I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's ...
EDGAR MITCHELL We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is re...
EDGAR MITCHELL I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and ...
EDGAR MITCHELL I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense ...
EDGAR MEYER I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.
EDGAR MEYER I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
EDGAR MEYER When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way,...
EDGAR MEYER In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
EDGAR MEYER I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
EDGAR GUEST I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
EDGAR GUEST For economist the real world is often a special case.
EDGAR FIEDLER He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
EDGAR FIEDLER The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
EDGAR FIEDLER If you have to forecast, forecast often.
EDGAR FIEDLER What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and i...
EDGAR DEGAS One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an ...
EDGAR DEGAS Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
EDGAR DEGAS