Mars Quotes

• President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

  Jay Inslee

  Compelling Reason, Focus, President

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• My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

  Boris Johnson

  Pms, Olive Trees, Olives

  2004 In the Observer, 20 Jun.

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• I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

  Wally Schirra

  Moon, Orbit, Earth

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• When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

  Bill Nye

  Travel, Shadow, Fiction

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• I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Men, Fire, Smoking

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.112, BookBaby

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• The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.

  Steve Squyres

  Taken, Earth, Taking Things For Granted

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• It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face.

  Graham Coxon

  Beer, People, Cheesy

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• What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

  Robert E. Lee

  Beautiful, Peace, War

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.206, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

  Danny Elfman

  Drawing, Special, Way

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• One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

  Simon Newcomb

  Knowledge, Science, Simple

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

  John Phillips

  Moon, Long, Goes On

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• I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Friendship, Laughter, Love Life

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• And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

  Frank Gehry

  Ties, People, Stuff

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• Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Alarms, Invasion, Used

  "Not Even a Hedgehog" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. June 7, 2004.

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• I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Space, Buzz

  "Cosmic Currency: PayPal and SETI Developing Space Cash System". www.space.com. June 27, 2013.

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• A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Peace, War, Civilized Nations

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• Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Rivers, Age

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.128, Cornell University Press

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• I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.

  Sarah Zettel

  Writing, Moon, Race

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• What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

  Jose Saramago

  Doe, Machines, World

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• And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

  Larry Niven

  Writing, Stories, Clear

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.362, Macmillan

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• Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

  Samuel Butler

  Heaven, Felicity, Excluded

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.

  Sammy Hagar

  Breakup, Disappointment, Cds

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• I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.

  Edward E. Barnard

  Drawing, Mountain, Details

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• Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

  Bernard M. Oliver

  Stars, Moon, Destiny

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• I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean.

  Annabella Sciorra

  Believe, Ocean, Intelligent

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