Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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• We fly to the town in the little private airplane, and then we have to get in cars and drive to the hotel and then drive to the gig. So, I want to do a tour where the performances will actually be at the small airports.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Small
  • Fly
  • Airplane

• Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Love
  • Game

• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Dad
  • Hand
  • Air

• The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Night
  • New York
  • Airplane

• We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • Home
  • Child
  • Chapter

• America's trying to do the best for its veterans.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Trying
  • America
  • Best

• Every time I get on an airplane I have a routine. I cover the inside of my nostrils with anti-bacterial ointment. I'm popping Zicam like it's candy. And I drink, literally, from L.A. to New York, six bottles of water.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Time
  • Water
  • New

• I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Mission
  • Physics
  • Airplane

• I love the Zucker brothers' films - 'Airplane!,' 'Top Secret' and 'Police Squad!' - are my formative experiences.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Love
  • Police
  • Airplane

• I am too insecure to crash early. I feel life will pass me by while I'm sleeping.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Insecure
  • Sleeping

• You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • World
  • American
  • Car

• 'Successive technological revolutions have immeasurably widened the psychological gap between generations. With some reason, perhaps, the man of the age of electricity and of the airplane feels himself removed from his masters.'

  

  Marc Bloch
  • Age
  • Airplane

• Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky. And they fly from L.A. to New York in an airplane over this vast, expansive land where people aren't snarky; they're a lot more like the 'Parks and Rec' characters.

  

  Chris Pratt
  • People
  • Fly
  • Airplane

• I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar.

  

  Derek Kilmer
  • Wife
  • Airplane

• I love 'Airplane,' the 'Naked Gun' films; everything the Zucker brothers have done is just awesome.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Done
  • Gun
  • Awesome

• The airplane has had a big impact on my life.

  

  Jim Courier
  • Life
  • Airplane

• I am terrified of flying. I am a wreck right before I get on an airplane. That, and the ocean. I can only get in there for 10 minutes, I have this strong urge to run out and I won't go back in for the rest of the day. I've always been like that.

  

  Kyle Gallner
  • Strong
  • Rest
  • Ocean

• Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

  

  Jonathan Winters
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Moon

• I think participating in "Gishwhes" is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks.

  

  Misha Collins
  • People
  • Shopping
  • Airplane

• If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all.

  

  Nikolay Dobrolyubov
  • Individual
  • Conviction
  • Indifferent

• I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.

  

  Aleksa Palladino
  • Music
  • Feeling

• I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.

  

  Wolfgang Petersen
  • Trying
  • Situation
  • Scripts

• The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Airplane
  • Tombstone