Quotes of: Columbia-university Keyword

Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.

Greenhaven

When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant.

George Smoot

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.

George Washington

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

Hervey Allen

I am a kid who played university cricket, so to be around international cricket is a blessing.

Harsha Bhogle

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Henry Fielding

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

Herbie Hancock

A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.

Jonathan Miller

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

Jon Meacham

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

John Pople

My legacy as governor was UConn and the cities. This is my passion. When I was governor, I would call Waterbury the center of the universe.

John Rowland

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

John Updike

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Derek Bok

Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe.

Don Campbell

The Universe has your back. Instead of trying to control the outcome, just enjoy the journey.

Dawn Gluskin

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

David Hare

In the universe, nothing is either beautiful or ugly, but our perception and thinking makes it so.

Debasish Mridha

I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.

John Cusack

Training is a universal right. It's not just targeted at those with the worst skill levels.

Jeff Denham

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.

John Green

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

John B. S. Haldane