“You can't hurt me. Westley and I are joined by the bonds of love. And you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords. And when I say you are a coward it is only because you are one of the slimiest weaklings ever to walk the Earth!”— William Goldman, Buttercup, Robin Wright, amazon.com
“Earth is a giant stone, rolling and turning through the sky. And we’re all on it together.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to…”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, en.wikiquote.org
“I am trying to convince people — not only the public, but lawmakers and people in power — that investing in the frontier of science, however remote it may seem in its relevance to what you're doing today, is a way of stockpiling the seed corns of future harvests of this nation.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, youtube.com
“I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Ameri…”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, haydenplanetarium.org
“During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore — in part because it's fun to do. But there's a far nobler reason. The day our knowledge of the cosmos ceases to expand, we risk regressing to the childish view that the universe figuratively and l…”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, haydenplanetarium.org
“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.”— William W. Purkey, amazon.com
“The reason so many people are starving is because we’ve wrecked the planet. The Earth is dying, you know? It’s time to leave.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“If there was a bright center to the universe, I was on the planet it was farthest from.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“We were all probably stuck here for the duration, on the third rock from our sun. Boldly going extinct.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“BP is paying $18.7 bil for their Deepwater Horizon oil spill—that comes out to roughly $18.7 bil for every planet they're destroying.”— Stephen Colbert, twitter.com
“A giant asteroid might destroy Earth! Unfortunately, it won’t get here until 2135, so it looks like I still have to do the dishes.”— Stephen Colbert, twitter.com
“It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.”— Gary Snyder, amazon.com
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com