Planet Quotes

"I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground"

John McLaughlin, Musician

"We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up"

Dennis Weaver, Actor

"On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all over this planet. I love connections and relationship and networking but it must be led by the Spirit"

Daniel Smith, Politician

"The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet"

William Wiley, Soldier

"Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country"

Simon Hoggart, Journalist

"Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience"

Mary Lou Retton, Athlete

"In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth"

J. Donald Walters, Author

"I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy"

Bea Arthur, Actress

"The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl!"

Denise Crosby, Actress

"White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that"

Kevin J. Anderson, Author

"I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it"

James Daly, Actor

"I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true"

Ted Danson, Actor

"The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable"

Ted Danson, Actor

"War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world"

Sandra Cisneros, Author

"This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet"

Ray Manzarek, Musician

"No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today"

George Crumb, Composer

"Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution"

Uri Geller, Entertainer

"Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done"

Joe Shuster, Artist

"I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces"

Henry W. Kendall, Scientist

"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being"

Martha Graham, Dancer

"Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"I really liked the idea of focusing on one thing for, hopefully, a long time to come. I also like the idea of a consistent lifestyle, as opposed to not really knowing where on the planet you're going to be at any given moment"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"I'm not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me"

Caroline Corr, Musician

"Which would you rather have, capital lined up on your borders, trying to get into your country or trying to get out of your country? We are the capital magnet of this planet and we are the savior for not only people, for not only freedom, but also for capital"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

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