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Cluster Quotes

When things gather, or fall apart, together.

"Cluster" does a lot of work across these quotes — a sociologist noticing whole friend groups divorcing around the same time, an astronomer explaining why galaxies cluster instead of scaling up cleanly, and a reference to Delaware's financial-services cluster.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

Quotes by A. N. Wilson

In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man...

Quotes by Sherwood Smith

Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state.

Quotes by Ruth Ann Minner

A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours - one reason the globe, if looked at from a certain height, is a cluster of lights surrounded...

Quotes by Pico Iyer

Clusters Quotes

Research indicates that a pause tends to be a signal that a cluster of deceptive cues is on its way. This is a key reason why voters routinely associate Trump with authenticity: He rarely pauses.

Quotes by Pamela Meyer

When Rose McDermott, a professor of political science at Brown University, got divorced two years ago, she noticed that a cluster of her friends were splitting up at around the same time.

Quotes by Katie Hafner

If you take a galaxy and try to make it bigger, it becomes a cluster of galaxies, not a galaxy. If you try to make it smaller than that, it seems to blow itself apart.

Quotes by Jeremiah P. Ostriker

I just like to have cereal in the morning, but it'll be those cluster things - it's a bit random - and through the day, I like just pasta, plain pasta with a bit of sauce on it, never too...

Quotes by Jade Jones

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.

Quotes by Jacques Roumain

Collection Quotes

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

Quotes by Georg Trakl

In 1957, I was studying the Pleiades star cluster at Harvard University's radio observatory. On one occasion, we saw an added feature in the data. It turned out to be an amateur radio enthusiast near the observatory, but at the...

Quotes by Frank Drake

Of the thousands of ways that humans differ from one another, turns out there's this one cluster of traits called conscientiousness that predict a whole host of positive life outcomes, such as longevity over our health, life satisfaction.

Quotes by Daniel Levitin

There's a large cluster of stars that are orbiting the center of our galaxy. And by measuring the motion of stars, and in particular, their orbits, we can figure out whether or not there's a central black hole.

Quotes by Andrea M. Ghez

My brain is a big cluster of stuff. It moves quickly and loses focus quickly, so I need many projects to keep me stimulated - it's a luxury to be able to do lots of different things: style, write, present,...

Quotes by Alexa Chung

Frequently Asked Questions

What different uses of "cluster" appear here?
Social (friend groups splitting up together), astronomical (galaxies clustering instead of scaling smoothly), and economic (an industry cluster driving a region's economy).
What's the divorce-cluster observation about?
A political science professor observed several of her own friends splitting up in the same stretch of time she was, calling it a cluster of separations within one social circle.
Is there a quote about gender and household chores?
Yes, one observes that when a man does the dishes, women gather around to praise and thank him, while a woman doing the same task gets no such reaction.
What does the galaxy-cluster quote explain?
It notes that scaling a galaxy up turns it into a cluster of galaxies rather than a bigger single galaxy, while scaling down risks it blowing apart entirely.
What other topics pair with cluster quotes?
Readers also browse Collection Quotes or Group Quotes.

Related ideas about grouping continue in Collection Quotes and Group Quotes.