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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#brothers #clown #columbus #does #fact

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#build #collect #drum #endless #immensity

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#after #chance #continue #death #delighted

I don't roll like that but I've never been with a hooker either. Yeah, that's good to say in an interview cause I feel bad a little because people grew up watching me and that's a little disturbing. ↗

— Bob Saget

#because #been #cause #disturbing #either

I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet. ↗

— Bob Saget

#cable #comedy #dirty #doing #fantastic

It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard. ↗

— Eva Marie Saint

#director #everybody #heard #loud #louder

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man. ↗

— Patti Smith

#claus #everyone #god #help #man

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#by the time #cleaning #i #out #output

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#class #dickens #earlier #few #first

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction. ↗

— Milton Sapirstein

#ideal #like #marriage #mother