Mars Quotes - Page 6

• I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere.

  Sarah Zettel

  Beautiful, Interesting, Bears

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• In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet.

  Les Dawson

  Moon, Space, Heaven

  Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.19, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

  Raquel Cepeda

  White, America, Black

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• My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.

  Elon Musk

  Vision, Important, Fuel

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.

  Elon Musk

  America, Energy, Three

  "Elon Musk: Triumph of His Will". Interview with Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2012.

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• I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Bars, Stealing

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• Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

  Sally Ride

  Pushing Back, Study, Being Human

  "Tip A Forty Of Tang For Pioneering Astronaut And All-Around Awesome Person Sally Ride" by Caleb Reading, uproxx.com. July 24, 2012.

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• If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Earth, Form, Martians

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Funks The Universe’ VIDEO Makes Rap Out Of Physics Conversation", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2013.

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• The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Firsts, Making Money, Company

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• As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Thinking, Space

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• I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet.

  Hugo Chavez

  Civilization, Venezuela, Strange

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• We know more about soils of Mars than about soils of Africa

  Pedro

  Soil, Knows

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• Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but I'm from the Jersey Shore.

  JWoww

  Men, May, Venus

  "The Rules According to JWOWW". Book by Jenni "JWOWW" Farley, www.today.com. February 04, 2011.

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• Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. OK, we can swing with that. But performance 'debilitating' drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the 100 metres, fair play for you. That's pretty good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.

  Eddie Izzard

  Distance, Winning, Swings

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• Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.

  Veronica Roth

  Circles, Half, Factions

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• Frank Zhang: lumbering klutz, child of Mars, part-time pachyderm.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Frank, Part Time

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• What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

  Robert E. Lee

  Beautiful, Kindness, War

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.84, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

  David Jeremiah

  Wisdom, Love Is, Devastation

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• The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth

  Immanuel Kant

  Future, Earth

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• As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.

  Hudson Taylor

  Spiritual, Prayer, Blessing

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• If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdote. As with the face on Mars and alien abductions, better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Real, Data

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.263, Ballantine Books

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• In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally with his ball and claim the hole - but it isn't usually done.

  Charles Brown MacDonald

  Golf, Player, Caddies

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• Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the moon. I want to go to Mars! I want to eventually go beyond the solar system!

  Takafumi Horie

  Ambition, Optimistic, Moon

  "Takafumi Horie Talkasia Transcript". "Talk Asia" With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 200.

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• 'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Bad Ass, Two, Space

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• I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars
  I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars

  Lil Wayne

  Depression, Stars, Xanax

  Song: I Feel Like Dying, Album: THE DROUGHT IS OVER PT.2 (CARTER 3 SESSIONS MIXTAPE)

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