Planet Quotes

Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet.

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.

I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

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.

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

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

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

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

Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think there's anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.

A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!

We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.

I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.

NASA should start thinking about this planet.

Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.