Alija Izetbegovic Quotes

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

We gazed dreamily at the Milky Way and once in a while caught some shooting stars. Times like those gave me the opportunity to wonder and ask all those very basic questions. That sense of awe for the heavens started there.

I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination creates, not simply in explanation of what is there but also to explain or justify the feeling of awe and attachment that the heavens inspire.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It makes you feel small.

I'm still amazed at how the universe works.

We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.

...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold flares, I had a little crumpled thought, 'Oh well, the moon. It's just another place like California.' One's imagination drags its feet as we are inexorably hauled into the future.

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'

Directing is like looking at the stars on a cloudless night. You get away from all light sources, and you look up, and you see 50 points of light. And a minute later 100 and another minute later 1,000 and then 10,000. And then this swirling gigantic carpet above you, and somehow it all seems to connect.

When you gaze at stars and think about planets, the places it takes your imagination are amazing! You look up the sky, and you know the stars have always been here; they were referenced in biblical times and have always been present. They are somewhere up there in the future, and they guide you; they make you feel safe.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

There's no night without stars.

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.