Quotes About Expansion

Think BIG right now- you can always make it smaller later!

was odd that so much intellectual energy was invested into defining, and contrasting, the two signature groups of the British Invasion when what united them both was a restless experimentalism and a desire to expand outward, from the simple to the complex.

Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire to spread its enlightenment—whether through commerce, the Bible, the gun, or some combination of all three—to the world's less fortunate cultures and races.

We're moving into sudden history now, baby. That life men lead and women disavow, that sure and certain sense that nothing is wrong, that life does not beat or pause, that the universe expands relentlessly. You can feel the source of all the world's light in your beating heart, in the map of your blood, in the vast range and pace of your brain. That's the light, baby. You don't need any other. Just that light beating forever inside you.

I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.

Life is the pursuit of eternally broadening context.

Our actual universe evolves to empty space.

The Big Bang model seems like a fairly natural picture, once you believe in an approximately uniform universe that is expanding in time. Just wind the clock backward, and you get a hot, dense beginning. Indeed, the basic framework was put together in the late 1920s by Georges Lemaître, a Catholic priest from Belgium

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

The best gift you can give yourself is an open mind.

It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

In yoga practice, over time you use fewer muscles more efficiently. Expansion does require energy, but it should not require a great deal of effort.

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there's finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas.

Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?