Planet Quotes

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

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

"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

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

Henry W. Kendall, Scientist

"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

"Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways"

Dennis Miller, Comedian

"Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special"

Murray Gell-Mann, Physicist

"I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it"

Montel Williams, Entertainer

"There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable"

Robin Day, Journalist

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people"

Carl Sagan, Scientist

"It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet"

Wernher von Braun, Scientist

"We must all recognize that protecting the environment is not an optional thing. It's an imperative, if we want to ensure that our planet remains habitable for future generations"

Tom McMillan, Politician

"Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants"

Stewart Udall, Politician

"I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts"

Franco Zeffirelli, Director

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet"

Jack London, Novelist

"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet"

Jack London, Novelist

"I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet"

Julie Delpy, Actress

"I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet"

Guy Johnson

"'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning"

J. Lee Thompson, Director

"This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young"

Paul Tsongas, Politician

"We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth"

Maurice Strong, Businessman

"The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated"

Sun Ra, Musician

"During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die"

James Young, Musician

"We see an entire planet which has many limitations"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources"

Lynette Fromme, Criminal

"And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet"

Siobhan Fahey, Musician

"I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late"

Ace Frehley, Musician

"Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development"

Kenneth Scott Latourette, Historian

"Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China"

Kenneth Scott Latourette, Historian

"I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet"

Mark Roberts, Actor

"It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff"

Gil Gerard, Actor

"When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do"

Gene Simmons, Musician

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