Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.

I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.

So many of us have our asses watching stupid reality shows, desensitizing our brains. Like, "Wow, isn't that dumb, but I'm so entertained right now! That's the stupidest thing I've seen in my life - give me more of it!" You know what I'm talking about. I turn on the television and I'm like, "This is so bad, but I cannot get my fucking eyes off of it." It's not good.

When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.

Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming and whether the asparagus is yet in sight.

It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.

It turns out, that men, when they're taking care of their business, they're not fully attending to the task at hand, but, I'm sure there's an evolutionary explanation for this, if you give them a target, they will aim.

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive? The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks from the springs of the bed.

If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.

Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"

Game, set, match equals tennis. Set, match, run equals arson.

There are things we can do to give us a little more attention.... I've got to look more frantic.

I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them.

I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information.

I do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem pleasure above all things, though yet in the middle of it, it has reluctances after my business, which is neglected by my following my pleasure. However musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

Does it give you déjà voodoo how alike the houses are?" "That's déjà vu, and I hate you right now

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.