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Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place.
Kid Rock
Musicians
Celebrate
People
World
Money
Better
Smart
Think
Others
Astronomical
Athletes
Some
About
Onto
Throw
Better Place
Take
Firefighters
Policemen
Make
Pass
Intellectually
Get
Trying
Place
Should
Paid
Teachers
Less
Baseball
Amount
Million
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
Hans Hofmann
Art
Complicated
Creation
Final
Relation
Astronomical
Possibilities
Would
Take
Combination
Pictorial
Concentration
Explain
Realization
Act
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
Yukio Mishima
Truth
Projection
Become
Flower
Universe
Astronomical
Entire
Perceive
Observation
Lotus
Microscopic
May
Whereby
Agent
Means
Theory
Foundation
Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.
Jim Henson
Time
Me
Remember
First
Own
Astronomical
My Own
Week
Higher
Price
Put
Well
Got
Yeah
Contract
Which
Little
Really
Working
Show
Started
By The Time
Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.
Michael Shermer
Science
Events
Thought
Mysteries
Once
Astronomical
Paranormal
Supernatural
Understood
Causes
Happenings
Incorporated
When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
C. V. Raman
Water
Light
Degree
Important
Consider
Earth
Possess
Astronomical
Significance
Three-Quarters
Fact
Observed
Globe
Surface
Covered
Begin
Contribute
Liquid
May
In Fact
Realise
Molecular
Nearly
Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding.
Lisa Ling
Time
Food
Home
Parents
Before
Astronomical
Kids
Unable
Eating
More
Supplement
Budgets
Ticking
Schools
Time Bomb
Selling
Than
America
Junk
Junk Food
Children
Order
Exploding
Working
Bomb
Shrinking
Ever
Amount
Monitor
What are the odds that a nuclear emergency like the one at Fukushima Dai-ichi could happen in the central or eastern United States? They'd have to be astronomical, right?
Bill Dedman
Odds
States
Astronomical
Eastern
Emergency
Could
Like
Happen
Central
United
United States
Nuclear
Right
You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.
Amy Heckerling
You
Money
Tomorrow
Big
Virtually
Spend
Astronomical
Out
Promoting
Costs
Could
Make
Go
Tiny
Movie
Movies
Low-Budget
Million
Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote some of the most important and influential books in all of Western history.
Brendan Myers
History
Sky
Made
Important
Every
Heritage
Our
Books
Complex
Those
Astronomical
Kind
Some
Poets
Like
Most
Wrote
Instruments
Scientists
Were
Intellectual
Western
Intellectuals
The Most Important
Influential
Literary
Disk
Pagan
Who
Mechanism
Including
Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.
Chuck Todd
You
Money
Think
Presidential
Astronomical
Rate
Bubble
Almost
Like
Housing
Get
Any
Bigger
Growing
When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.
Charles Platt
Space
Will
Earth
Finally
Several
Batteries
Station
Astronomical
Total
Brought
Lifetime
Weighing
Years
Fitted
Up
Five
Expense
Just
Literally
Space Station
Spares
Requiring
Special
International
International Space Station
Tons
It's so hard and impossible to shoot in L.A. The costs are astronomical.
Joel Silver
Impossible
Astronomical
Costs
Shoot
Hard
Black holes are enigmatic astronomical objects, areas where the gravity is so immense that it has warped spacetime so that not even light can escape.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Light
Black
Immense
Astronomical
Black Holes
Objects
Area
Escape
Where
Holes
Warped
Even
Enigmatic
Gravity
During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.
David Roberts
Church
Rich
Books
Hundreds
Astronomical
Only
Mythological
Catholic
Known
Survived
Diego
Burning
Information
Spanish
Century
Conquest
Four