Center Of The Universe Quotes

I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe.

I lived in New York for 10 years, I loved it, I never second-guessed it. There were definitely times when I thought, “I will never leave this place.” And I kind of got into that center-of-the-universe mindset.

Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.

I’m not a person who believes that Broadway is the only place. I think there’s lots of work that goes on outside of Broadway and outside of New York that’s better than anything Broadway has ever seen. But, it’s historically the place. It’s one of the centers of the universe, in many ways.

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.

For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner … on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. … That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that.

I have friends in New York that won’t leave New York, and they’re really talented people, but they’d rather take an acting class in New York than do a play in Florida or Boston. That’s just weird to me, but they get into that I’ve-got-to-be-in-the-center-of-the-universe mentality. I’m not that way.

I am not the center of the universe. And it’s a lesson that I keep having to learn; it’s my ongoing work, I’d say. And being in a career that is predicated on a degree of self-absorption, that is a tricky thing to negotiate sometimes.

I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very late back then. That kind of confirmed my sense of being the center of the universe, which I guess every child feels – children and poets both tend to feel.

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans… was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

Children are wonderful but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

It’s the 21st century, and somebody has to rise from within this faith tradition and retranslate it for the post-modern world… The Earth is not the center of the universe, therefore, God is not a being who lives above the sky, who splits the Red Sea from time to time, or creates a miracle, or whatever.

Who made you the center of the universe?

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Love is an earthquake that relocates the center of the universe.

New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just the landscapes themselves but their relationships to what we would call ‘a center’ or ‘the center of the universe,’ has in some ways defined my artistic and critical vision.

At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.