Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, 'What?'

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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• I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Night
  • Waiting
  • Kid

• Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Self
  • Reputation
  • Ourselves

• In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Car
  • Summer
  • Heat

• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Style
  • Practice

• If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Happy
  • Health

• Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Done
  • Health
  • Day

• Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Things
  • Worst
  • Choosing

• At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and that felt very therapeutic, by putting words to feelings, in a big way.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Great
  • Words
  • Feeling

• One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Good
  • Work
  • History

• Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Sales

• I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trust
  • Wrong
  • Instincts

• I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • May
  • Care

• In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Water
  • Politics
  • Stress

• My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Father
  • Military

• Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Woman
  • Child
  • Birth

• I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.'

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Guy
  • Respect
  • Down

• Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Death
  • Space
  • Dead

• The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with, that become celebrities or become really successful in what they do because they believe in who they are.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don't agree with me. So it's always okay, it's always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Men
  • Opinion
  • Boyfriend

• Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

  

  Jessamyn West

• The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

  

  Len Wein
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Evil

• I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Funny

• I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, 'What?'

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Alien