Quotes of: Columbia-university Keyword

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

Arthur C. Clarke

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

Naomie Harris

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

Stephen Vizinczey

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

Donald Barthelme

It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires special conditions. I would like it to be universal.

Antony Gormley

I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

Douglas Coupland

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Jim Henson

There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.

John Updike

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

Ralph Allen

It was so pleasant, chaotic, emotionless, nameless-everything vibrating so beautifully in the universe without words.

100 Sideways Miles

When you want something, he entire universe conspires to help you achieve it.

The Alchemist

I understand what motivates them. Greed is such a universal thing, especially when combined with laziness.

Rise to Power

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

Reflections on Gender and Science

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

With kisses like that, I wish this was the Universe where you were my soulfinder.

Seeking Crystal

It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.

The Middle

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.

The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

Remember the power is not in the leader of the group, but in the Creator of the universe.

Leading Ladies: Willing Hearts, Willing Hands

He was right. The annoying Disney song was right. The universe was too fucking small.

Locked and Loaded

So, so sorry. Really sorry. Master. Sir. Emperor of the world. God of the universe.

Master of the Abyss

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life