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It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.

Chuck Palahniuk

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy

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

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

William S. Burroughs

Mere human beings can't afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

Storm Jameson

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Henry David Thoreau

I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution.

Bill Hicks

Hybrid propulsion is just one of the technologies that we can introduce to meet the performance expectations of our customers, yet protect this planet that we all count on to sustain us.

Harry Pearce

I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.

George Foreman

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

Max Depree

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

Stanley Kubrick

Immediately after the game, what does he do? He gives credit to everybody else on the planet earth. That's unbelievable.

Josh Miller

Just like our planet, a little beat-up.

Tom Hughes

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too.

Stan Dale

Life would be pretty bleak for humans on this planet if we don't have very many species to share the Earth with.

Steve Morrison

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.

J. W. Schopf

Dog-strangling vine is one of the worst things to hit the planet.

Larry Lamb

They have been on the planet for millions of years. Why doesn't it have the right to continue?

Richard Moyroud

I want to try and get into those kinds of places. It's very important to make devices for life detection on Mars, for example. ... Any planet or moon with a solid surface will do.

Penelope Boston

You just became the most important person on the planet.

Carla Gugino

[In the green scheme of things, death becomes a vehicle for land conservation and saving the planet.] It is not enough to be a corpse anymore, ... Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse.

Thomas Lynch

I think every girl on the planet has done that. You can go look at my desk -- Jeannie Ad-Rock, Jeannie Schwimmer.

Jeannie Long

I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet - each of us in our own way.

Bernie Siegel

We kind of describe it as living on Mars or something, another planet.

Todd Rutherford

This effort provides a very good example of the hard work our industry continues to do to make sure automobiles and auto production have the least impact on our planet.

Richard Pearson

Our goal is to eventually remove the automobile from the energy and environment debate, to neutralize its impact on the planet. That's why we're so bullish about alternative fuels.

Dave Barthmuss

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

Jerry Brown

It's important, with climate change, landfills, hazardous waste, the health of humans and other species, future generations and the health of the planet.

Brian Dunbar

We live on a planet that now must face, hopefully, a form of globalization inclusive of a vision to make the world a better place for the many -not just a select few -and I believe that the arts are in the forefront of that dream.

Herbie Hancock

Evolution is a process. As long as there's life on the planet, it can't not happen.

Richard Kissel

There's not a more generous guy on the planet.

Roger Craig

It's more than public relations. We really are the kind of people who believe we can ultimately save the planet.

Jeff Swanagan

I have more than four people on this planet in my life who see me for myself and forget that I've worked on network television. They forget I've worked in movies, and that I'm an actor. As long as I have four people who can do that, then there are others who are capable of doing that.

Gary Coleman

That's one of the most important fossils on the planet - yet it's here in a plastic box in little old Albuquerque.

Adrian Hunt

That's my focus in life, taking care of our planet . . . Everybody can make a difference.

Jeff Barrie

America supports you. You are the greatest fighting force on the planet.

Pedro Hernandez

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Iris Murdoch

Mars is the most habitable planet accessible to us. It's not extremely cold or hot. It's possible to imagine human colonies on Mars.

Alfred Mcewen

Oh, look at the planet.

Valery Tokarev

Now we have a permanent scientific presence on another planet.

Charles Elachi

Right now in human beings, it kills 55 percent of the people it infects. That makes it the most lethal flu we know of that has ever been on planet Earth affecting human beings.

Laurie Garrett

She will be the most recognized female athlete on the planet for the next 12 to 18 months. Her marketability will never be higher than it is now. How much money she makes long-term will be determined by how well she plays.

Scott Seymour

It's the prettiest place on the planet, ... My childhood was like a dream. It's like the last Mayberry.

Greg Behrendt

These are some of the highest regions of the planet because they sit on top of southern hemisphere terrain, which is higher than corresponding terrain in the north.

Richard Zurek

I actually don't meet very many men because they are, I guess, afraid to approach me or think that I'm from another planet.

Claudia Schiffer

There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.

Carlos Santana

There are 400 billion stars in the galaxy, and obviously we are not going to point the Terrestrial Planet Finder at every one of them.

Margaret Turnbull

It looks great on PowerPoint, but on planet Earth, it won't fly. Salesforce.com is a CRM company. Marc is trying to make noise and buzz about something bigger, but that's all it is.

Shai Agassi

This is not the biggest problem in the world. The biggest problem in the world is getting along with each other. But it's part of that because we're not going to get along with each other if we're not getting along with the planet.

Richard Alley

There was a sense the president was on another planet. What the president has done in the last week or so is be much more frank about challenges without diluting his optimism. ... It puts him back in the debate.

Jon Alterman

Of the six billion people on this planet, two billion live on the equivalent of less than $2 a day in American currency, ... As long as America is the land of opportunity and jobs, people will do whatever it takes to come here.

Artur Davis

We'll basically be able to map the entire [planet].

Dale Cruikshank

Understanding what's out there is essential for us to cherish it… We know so little about this life on this planet. Life on this planet is essential for its long-term sustainability.

Brian Fisher

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet, ... I'm always in Africa . . . And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

Harry Belafonte

These are places I would want to live if God were to put our planet around another star.

Margaret Turnbull

If you want to find out about things on our own little planet, you have to look out.

David Southwood

This closest visit to our planet was a lifetime event, ... I was glad to have been alive and there to watch this great event.

Scott Simon

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

Derrick Jensen

Bald eagles do not exist anywhere else on the planet. Bald eagles are our eagles. Nobody else can claim them. That's why they're our national symbol.

Jacques Nuzzo

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

Werner Von Braun

I have to play an opponent, a very powerful opponent, that studied all my games, that has a unique ability -- the best on the planet -- to collect all this information and analyze that, and I know nothing about him, ... I said 'him.' I meant 'it.'

Garry Kasparov

We really do have a permanent presence around that planet.

Charles Elachi

If what we are saying is true, it's the greatest message on the planet. If it's not true, we above all people should be pitied for our foolishness.

Tom Griner

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him.

Arthur C. Clarke

Shame on us if 100 or 200 years from now our grandchildren and great-grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by global warming, and they ask, 'How could those who came before us, who saw this coming, have let this happen?'

Joseph Lieberman

I put up my thumb... and it blotted out the planet Earth.

Neil Armstrong

What the Mars orbital camera has revealed from this long and detailed study of the Red Planet is a dynamic Mars, a planet that can change – not on the mind-boggling millions and billions of years, but on the order of years and decades.

Michael Meyer

Planet of the Apes fit right into that ... it's a kind of overturning of the contemporary society. The film overtly deals with prejudice because you have the prejudice against the white males, the humans.

Vivian Sobchack

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

Gaylord Nelson

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

Theodore H. White

The fast-growing sunspot now covers an area of the solar disk equivalent to the surface area of 13 planet Earths. That makes it the largest sunspot of the current solar cycle.

Paal Brekke

We can't send living things to another planet. That might screw it up.

Bill Nye

Parasites are absolutely a bad thing if you're the individual infected by them. But they are a very natural component of ecosystems. Parasitism is the most popular animal lifestyle on the planet.

Kevin Lafferty

Our data suggest that the planet-forming process may be hardier than previously believed, occurring around even the most massive stars.

Joel Kastner

This thing is trying to be one of the most paranoid devices on the planet.

Charles Palmer

It's really the only large storm on the whole planet.

Andrew Ingersoll

They will see the finest skiing on the planet.

Phil Chase

If it had formed anywhere other than around Saturn, it would be a planet in its own right.

Linda Spilker

It's an area where the Spirit bear is found. It's just one of those spectacular places on the planet.

Ian Mcallister

Tanning salons were often Ma and Pa businesses with one tanning booth that would often not get cleaned and have bulbs that would be half burned out. Planet Beach insists on cleanliness, the best in equipment and we replace our bulbs before they reach 70 percent of their life.

Dennis Kim

If the 'millennium bug' has any truth, you're counting down 10-9-8 to zero and at the moment you scream, 'Happy new year!' or 'Happy millennium!' the lights all over the planet will go out.

Josh Freed

But the question of how we migrated around the planet, how we populated the world, in effect, is still an open one.

Dr Spencer Wells

How old is the sun? Sun not temporary, not chronological. There is the terra-celestial and the celestial. I am celestial, mon. I am here, there and everywhere. I live among men so I must adjust myself. When I go to other planet, I must adjust myself there, too, mon.

Peter Tosh

The Web is like the biggest city on the planet. Wander around long enough and you're going to trip over something illegal.

Glenn Nick

We need to live on this planet in a much more enhanced way.

Mark Dubois

Geology is really something you have to study in the field. By taking geology it will help you get the full entertainment value out of this planet.

Steve Simpson

Two weeks ago, we won first place in Planet Earth Outerwear half-pipe competition and second place in the rail jam competition. And we won first place for overall shop.

Jason Howes

Part of Planet Digital's mission is to provide people with the highest standard of hands-on training possible.

Janice Miller

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

Dinesh D'Souza

There are exactly four sopranos on the planet who have sung that music. I know Tom's music well, so I knew who these sopranos were.

Chad Smith

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

Franco Zeffirelli

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

This tells us that these things that we see out in space can survive interstellar space and successfully be delivered to the surface of a planet.

Doug Hudgins

I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose.

Paul Williams

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

We have ignition and liftoff of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on a decade long voyage to visit the planet Pluto and then beyond.

Bruce Buckingham

God knows we have to provide a space in the world's economy for the least developed countries. We've got 2 billion people on this planet who live on less than $2 a day.

Ron Blackwell

(The market) is telling you that at these levels, given all the warnings we've had from every Fed governor on the planet about the risk of higher interest rates, that people are nervous in front of tomorrow.

Charles White

I don't think there is a publisher association on the planet who says, 'Oh, this is a good idea,' ... 'Trust me. I'm copying your full book, but, believe me, I'm only going to use a little bit.'

Patricia Schroeder

Adding a new planet does not change your sign. Your sign depends on where the sun was at the time of your birth.

Susan Miller

I'm a non-believer. I don't believe in the existence of a God. I don't believe in the Christian dogma. I find it horrifyingly silly. The intolerance that flows from organized religion is the most dangerous thing on the planet.

Jane Rule

Jennifer Lopez is one of the most recognizable celebrities on the planet. She has millions of fans, and we expect a lot of them will jump at the chance to go to her VIP party or to own one of her first designs. It will be the ultimate experience for fans and fashion lovers.

Holly Macdonald korth

I believe this hardware is the foundation for what will put humanity into space forever. There will always be people off the face of the planet.

Frank Culbertson

The 'rise' of China has suddenly become the all-absorbing topic for those professionally concerned with the future of the planet.

Robert Skidelsky

There's probably a variety of alien life visiting our planet.

Robert Farrell

We must change these outcomes and get the planet onto a sustainable energy path.

Claude Mandil

Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and How They Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in the Earth's History.

Peter Ward

In our modern age of Whole Foods and hybrid cars and flat screen TVs that are super-energy efficient, ... it's really about living a life that has concern for the planet around you but also doing it with style, authenticity and just a little bit of personal flair.

Danny Seo

The whole family is so nice it's like they are from another planet. They give so much but they want absolutely nothing in return.

Carrie Mahon

What planet have these people been living on?

Aaron Brown

If you are traveling anywhere on this planet, Arthur is the man to talk to.

Bob Bruno

If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet.

Nancy White

We have some of the most extraordinary landscape on the planet and we want to get two of the most extraordinary actors in the world and put them ... in that landscape.

Baz Luhrmann

I believe that the Galactic alignment stimulates consciousness evolution on this planet, whether or not beings alive during the alignment era are aware of it happening.

John Jenkins

We expect to do a large retail business with the Planet Hollywood brand on everything. We have a new logo and fresh ideas and expect there will be synergies with the hotel-casino to turn the retail into more of a profit center than most casinos enjoy.

Robert Earl

Pluto has always been a problem because it's less massive than the moon...[and] it's only about one 500th as massive as the Earth. So is it just a rock or is it a real planet?

Donald Schneider

The Great Bear Rainforest is Canada's Amazon, and today's announcement is British Columbia's gift to the planet.

Merran Smith

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

Wangari Maathai

I think we have better nursing homes than the rest of the country. There's not a nursing home on this planet that has anything on us.

Jim Roe

Every ecosystem on the planet is under threat of catastrophic collapse, and if we don't begin to acknowledge and solve them, then we will go down.

John Liu

Partnering with some of the world's largest integrators to deliver this program will enable more customers to take advantage of the performance and cost savings available from adopting the most advanced OS on the planet.

Tom Goguen

I did predict that this thing was going to be bigger than 'Planet of the Apes,' and that's a quote.

Mark Hamill

[Grant admitted the issue has come up with his girlfriend, actress-model Elizabeth Hurley. While he calls her] the only woman on the planet for me, ... not on the horizon.

Hugh Grant

Which would you rather have, a bursting planet or an earthquake here and there?

John Joseph Lynch

I think it is important for businesses and industry to adopt anything that is environmentally friendly. We all live on this planet.

Anne Hendricks

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

Hugo Chavez

Kitty's donation through 1% For The Planet is a venue for businesses to partner with community organizations to enhance their environmental stewardship.

Laura Hawkins

To have to wait four or five days is unimaginable. It makes you sick. But this is something that is part of the biosphere. This is God's planet. This is his nature.

Saul Berman

What Planet Are You From?

Garry Shandling

I would say the majority of astronomers believe there is life elsewhere, and the best place to find it would be on a planet that has conditions like the Earth.

Jaymie Matthews

We're on the money right now. But we are getting into the dangerous portion of the mission. A lot can go wrong, and if we don't succeed, we will fly right by the planet.

Jim Graf

Since UB313 is decidedly larger than Pluto, it is now increasingly hard to justify calling Pluto a planet if UB313 is not also given this status.

Frank Bertoldi

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

Alex Van Halen

Never before has the American public had so many organic choices in stores and restaurants. And what better way to celebrate the synergy between the health of our planet and the health of our families in honor of Earth Day.

Kathleen Rogers

Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet. --.

George B. Leonard

We're very pleased to have Planet Hollywood as an integral part of the Aladdin project.

Jack Sommer

I believe he's the fastest man on the planet.

Oriol Servia

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

Robert Anton Wilson

Our species are having a big impact on this planet, and there are some very big decisions that have to be made. Hopefully, we can get some answers.

Joe Waters

Art is always political. Film makers are not citizens from a different planet.

Thierry Fremaux

Americans are among the strongest believers in claims that Pluto, discovered in 1930, is a planet. Others, like me, say it's an icy body rather than a planet.

Dr. Noah Brosch

If a pilot says a UFO hovered off the bow of his plane, it either happened or it didn't. It's either yes or no, and if we're not alone, our planet needs to know that so that we know what to do tomorrow.

Mike Bird

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Kurt Vonnegut

Of course. I'm a very liberal-minded person, and I believe that all kinds of people should live in as much peace and harmony as humanly possible on this planet, regardless of their differences. I have always believed that, I was always taught that as a boy, and that's ingrained in my thinking.

Bryan Singer

Fiber optics have linked the world together and made our world, our planet, basically one small place. If it weren't for fiber optics, we wouldn't be able to have inexpensive global phone calls or 200 cable channels on our televisions.

David Kirkpatrick

Betting on the Planet.

John Tierney

It's inevitable at a Lines Ballet performance: that moment when you wonder, what planet am I on?

Rachel Howard

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

Karel Capek

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

Negotiations have fallen dramatically short of the kinds of commitments that would ensure a sustainable future for our planet and the people who live on it.

Claude Martin

Now we have our first genuine detection of light from a planet around a solar-like star.

Alan Boss

For 27 years, it meant only one thing. And we carry a message about the life on this planet and the quality of it is sacred. Very simple, but sometimes complex.

Dennis Banks

It was a very interesting and creative and cool way to apply technology we already had to another planet.

Chikai Ohazama

We're the only species on the planet that can't walk around the way we were created.

John Moyer

It is the dirtiest way to generate energy on the face of the planet.

Anne Hedges

It's like putting someone out in space for the first time, ... It's not yet to the moon or to another planet, but it is a major milestone.

Tom Hudson

The story of how you make a ring around a planet could be the same as the story of making rings around a star.

Paul Kalas

If there is any programming language architect on the planet who has the experience and insight to pull this off, he'd be on short list.

Peter O'kelly

Ceres is an embryonic planet, ... Gravitational perturbations from Jupiter billions of years ago prevented Ceres from accreting more material to become a full-fledged planet.

Lucy Mcfadden

This stuff contains the building blocks of life, and now we can say they're abundant in space. And wherever there's a planet out there, we know that these things are going to be raining down on it. It did here and it does elsewhere.

Doug Hudgins

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

Adrienne Rich

There's no better feeling in the planet than to come back home and hit a home run in front of your family.

Adrian Casanova

In the next 20 years China will be building [the equivalent] of a new Shanghai each year ... we have to find a way to absorb these people in a way that doesn't bring down the planet.

Robert Watson

You can never find a more competitive person on the planet than Herb. That family was unbelievable to be around in terms of an environment where competitiveness was allowed to thrive.

Jim Loehr

We here on Earth have long held a fascination with the planet Mars.

Chikai Ohazama

For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.

Ellen DeGeneres

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

Alice Walker

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

Aaron Copland

The Earth Dinner gives us a way for family and friends to come together to appreciate the remarkable role food plays in our lives, in our family?s histories and on our planet. How and what we eat determines the health of the earth.

Theresa Marquez

My heart is saddened with the news of the Pope's passing. He was truly the greatest man on the planet, the nearest to a saint.

Michael Flatley

Each side will be describing a different planet.

William Kovacic

Around 40 million people died in 1918 Spanish flu outbreak, ... There are six times more people on the planet now so you could scale it up to around 200 million people probably.

Neil Ferguson

On a DIP loan that size, I'm sure that everyone on the planet would be involved.

Jim Harris

We've taken those 17,000 images to build a mosaic of the whole planet.

Greg Mehall

There's a deviation of light when a planet is in the way. In this instance, there was a half-day brightening that was indicative of a planet.

Kem Cook

We have always stressed in this mission that we are stardust. Our planet and even our selves have a direct relationship to the particles we brought back.

Donald Brownlee

Peace for ourselves and for all the people of the planet.

Yuri Andropov

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

I mean, we're on Earth, but he's playing on a different planet.

Nicolas Kiefer

Each number is a key to unlock the hidden secrets of the earth the stars and endless array of galaxies beyond what we know as our home planet.

Betsy Mathew

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

It's getting to the point of survival for the human species on the planet.

Brian Lapointe

People think something put in the ocean is out of sight, out of mind. But the ocean moves it all around the planet. It's like one big nest.

Curt Ebbesmeyer

They are the biology of the planet much more than plants and animals.

Brian Lanoil

Not having to face the electorate again he has made saving the planet from climate change one of his legacy projects for his third term.

John Rentoul

It's almost like dodging a bullet. It's going to take a few trips around the planet to know for sure, but from what we can see so far it's a near-perfect entry into the orbit.

Dan Mccleese

On the last day of school, it's the national anthem. On that day, it's the most popular song on the planet. (Laughs.) I become Francis Scott Key for one day.

Alice Cooper

I am from the planet of elegance.

Aaron Carter

I don't know what planet Mr Downer is on, but he's not on planet New Orleans.

Kevin Rudd

This is the biggest industry on the planet, so there are a lot of entrenched interests that are keeping the market as it is today.

Mark Goodstein

Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing.

Frank Oz

Toyota is the biggest worrier on the planet.

James Womack

Our existence on the planet Earth is lessened every time we lose one of our fellow inhabitants.

Steve Morrison

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

Gary Snyder