Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Weir

Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to invent many new technologies before it can plausibly send people to those distances.

Clark Chapman

Remember this is a proof-of-concept engineering mission, not a science mission. We really do have to learn how to operate in the vicinity of an asteroid if we are ever going to use them for space resources or if we are going to have a reliable capability to deflect a dangerous one.

Ellen DeGeneres

I feel sorry for the newscasters you know? We can turn it off. But that's their job and they have to read these stories and they're just coming up on the teleprompter they don't know what's coming up. and they have to go through these change of emotions. That.. "There were no survivors...And next Which candybar helps ya lose weight! Still to come! Is an asteroid headed towards earth...But first where to find the cheesiest pizza in town! Also, a disturbing study finds that studies are disturbing...

Robert Duncan

We may have had a 10th and 11th planet that collided. It's also possible that the outward migration of Neptune scattered comets and small planet bodies, inducing collisions in the asteroid belt. The close passing of a neighboring star could have had a similar effect.

Andy Cheng

If we decide to deflect an asteroid we will need to know just where the center is, and we need to know something about its mechanical (compositional) strength.

George Noory

Maybe an asteroid will hit or something will happen to the magnetic polar fields, ... Or maybe the guy who was making calendars ran out of paper. Who knows?

R. Robinson

Setting the images in motion reveals a lot about the asteroid itself, ... The movies give us a dynamic look at changes in the shadowing and shading of surface features. By examining features with different illumination, geologists get a better look into the history of the asteroid.

Seth Shostak

The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid - one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence - hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite.

Buzz Aldrin

Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.

Paul Burke

Our leadership has been out in the communities doing what they are supposed to do -- mobilizing, organizing and preventing further roadblocks.

Madeline Albright

Our message to India and Pakistan is that there should be no further nuclear testing, no deployment or testing of missiles, no more inflammatory rhetoric and no more provocative military activity,

Adam Adelman

Optimism in the numbers will be a roadblock for further gains. The upside in tech is limited.

Jim Porter

People have died. Lives have been changed. Property has been destroyed. Yet, a group of trial lawyers are using this disaster, not as a reason to help the people of this state, but instead to further their own personal agenda.

E. B. White

That couldn't be further from the truth, and I say that with emphasis.

Katharina Von

Overall it is satisfactory but we hope that there will be further improvement between now and 2009.

Jim Rees

Our visitors instinctively know that he's great. But they think he's stiff, formal, lackluster, and sometimes they use the word 'boring.' Nothing could be further from the truth.

E. Hurley

Rising oil prices are being looked at as a further weight on global growth as opposed to inflationary,

Jeb Bush

We need a little further wind at the back of this economy,

Ogden Nash

Someone invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumber, Ringing wrong but similar numbers

Mark Burnett

I feel like I invented these catchphrases: 'The tribe has spoken.'

Anthony Pettis

I have a taekwondo background, but I also try to invent new moves and make sure that when I step into the Octagon, I'm a different fighter.

David Carson

He was sort of an inventor of a tough-guy look, whether he knew it or not.

Robert Morton

we can keep an inventory of what we got, what we need.

Jules Verne

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

Tetsu Emori

Most of the traders are looking at the Iranian issue over the bearish inventory report.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

Rhys Ifans

My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?

Andy Puckett

Then you can start to get an idea of what its orbit is and be able to predict where it's going to be in the future.

John Carroll

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

John L. Phillips

After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.

Richard Dawkins

I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system.

Tycho Brahe

There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.

Robert Crippen

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Lori Glass

Some have wives or girlfriends that say 'Don't send me roses,' though they specify they want at least one rose.

Dee Brown

That's the way the tournament goes. Wherever they send you, you've just got to go and play.

Rick Bragg

It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.

Dusty Baker

It doesn't send me no message. It's his career. It ain't my career.

John Chaney

I'm sending a message, and I'm going to do what we used to do years ago - send in the goons.

Joseph Biden

He didn't say who's going to send more troops,

Goodman Ace

I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.

Linda Holden

He said, you want pumpkins? We'll send you pumpkins. Ever since we've called him mayor-peter-peter-pumpkin-sender,

Stephane Dion

There is an urgent need to send a signal to the world about the future.

Walter Kirn

We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

Ken Wilber

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

John Krasinski

I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

Matthew Rhys

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

Saul Berman

Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it.

Veronica Roth

That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.

Christopher Lasch

Success in our society has to be ratified by publicity,

B. F. Skinner

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

Jens Stoltenberg

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Samuel West

I really do think the things that make our society what it is are under threat. It should be about everyone having the potential to be what they're going to be.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

Philip Sellwood

If we are going to have a sustainable, low-carbon society then we have to have low-carbon (supporting) citizens.

Charles James Fox

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Basil Hume

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.