#universe

The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#actor #create #hand #his #palm

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#couple #excellence #forces #forms #human

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#everything #judge #people #relates #see

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#made #stories #universe

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#apple #apple pie #first #invent #make

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? ↗

— Carl Sagan

#disservice #does #long #our #reason

It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that's actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything. ↗

— George Saunders

#answer #bearing #down #everything #freaky

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#constrained #discourse #during #government #how

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#always #between #i #i always #life

Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#consciousness #endowed #everything #i #kind