Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.

Tommy Lee Jones

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• The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • World
  • Today
  • Earth

• Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Earth
  • Eggs
  • Egg

• 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
  • Earth
  • Moon
  • Mars

• I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Seems
  • Wash

• When I was a boy, my older brothers listened to Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool and the Gang. When I would try to get into their room, they would close the door and say, 'You can't hear that. It's not for a child!' Now, I can listen to it and enjoy it.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Earth
  • Boy
  • Fire

• I like breakfast sandwiches, and the Krystal Sunriser might be the best breakfast sandwich on Earth. It has a really soft bun and sausage, eggs, and cheese on it. It's great if you're out until 5 or 6 in the morning and you happen to catch the 5:30 first shift. That's what I used to do when I played clubs; I would almost stay out until they opened.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Morning

• I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Change

• Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • Truth
  • Earth
  • Problem

• The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Important
  • Book
  • Earth

• Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • God
  • Earth

• When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Person
  • Guilty
  • Found

• I'm never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would be wasting such a great opportunity that the accident of life, or destiny, gave me, which is to be Mexican. If we would make 'Lord of the Rings' analogies, I think Mexico City is Middle-earth. That's where the fight of humanity is.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Yourself

• What song have you played 10,000 times? It's probably not something basic. It's probably a song that validates your experience on Earth.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Experience
  • Song
  • Earth

• Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Race

• Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Freedom of thought and the right of private judgment, in matters of conscience, driven from every other corner of the earth, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Earth

• A deposit insurance system is like a nuclear power plant. If you build it without safety precautions, you know it’s going to blow you off the face of the earth. And even if you do, you can’t be sure it won’t.

  

  L. William Seidman
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Safety

• Everywhere I have sought peace and not it, except in a corner with a book.

  

  Thomas à Kempis
  • Book
  • Peace
  • Found

• When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Dawn

• A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.

  

  William Godwin
  • Country
  • Mankind
  • Atheism

• In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Work
  • Education
  • Respect

• I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Earth
  • Found
  • Planets