Quotes tagged ‘planets’

“Capricorn season is a busy time of year. The holidays, the new year, many (too many) family dinners. It’s a time of reflection and deep thought where everyone, regardless of sign, celebrates the year’s successes, mourns the failures, and makes amends and resolutions for the upcoming year.”

— Esmé Stern, manrepeller.com

“Look at that sky, Malcolm. Just think. Somewhere out there, all those stars and planets, there might be at this very moment a space dad who just got kicked out of his space trailer, who's looking down on us. Or would it be up at us? Or maybe sideways?”

— Pang-Ni Landrum, Maggie Bandur, Hal, Bryan Cranston, imdb.com

“Niles: Can you tell me, with any certainty, that in such a vast universe there isn't intelligent life on other planets? Frasier: At the moment, I'm not sure there's intelligent life in this kitchen.”

— Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg, Frasier Crane, Kelsey Grammer, imdb.com

“As above, so below. The human being finds himself, or herself, in the middle. There is as much space outside the human, proportionately, as inside. Stars, moons, and planets remind us of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Is there a bigger being walking with all the stars within? Does our thinking af…”

— Harley Peyton, Log Lady, Catherine E. Coulson, imdb.com

“The world is nearly all parcelled out, and what there is left of it is being divided up, conquered and colonised. To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see th…”

— Cecil Rhodes, en.wikiquote.org

“It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet.”

— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com

“Do not feel lonely. The entire universe is inside you.”

— Misha Collins, snapdex.com

“Hey Neil deGrasse Tyson, I’m sick of you hitting Pluto below the Kuiper Belt. Come here and pick on someone in your own orbit!”

— Stephen Colbert, twitter.com

“You know the moon doesn’t have its own light, I told her. We see it because its surface reflects the sun’s light.”

— Mary Taugher, narrativemagazine.com

“In 1979, Pluto crossed Neptune’s orbit, and for 20 years was the eighth “planet” in the solar system.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com

“Jupiter is 11x wider than Earth. But Earth is only 5x wider than Pluto. So Jovians surely demoted us to Dwarf Planet long ago.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com