“After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realised that there… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Working in South Africa and the people in Johannesburg get under your skin. It stays with you. It's a place I want… — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Harriet Jones: Did you notice when they fart, if you'll pardon the word, it doesn't just smell like a fart, if you'll… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a… — Gavyn Davies Copy Share Image
“In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever. The longest we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Me? Beautiful? I'm plain as cardboard. That may be how you see yourself, but the rest of the world would be hard… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.' I thought for a moment. 'Turtles have the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If you don't donate to Obama and you're a major corporation like Big Oil, then they're gonna blame you for climate change,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
“POPULATION: None. It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Percy smiled at her - that sarcastic troublemaker smile that had annoyed her for years but eventually had become endearing. His sea-green… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe,… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form.… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,”… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I believe we have these capabilities. It doesn't mean that we will use them. Our future is not assured here. It's not… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Discovering that our solar system has many more planets than we ever expected, and that most of them are ice dwarfs rather… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Many problems that confront us today are created by man, whether they are violent conflicts, destruction of the environment, poverty or hunger.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If everybody on the planet today had the same standard of living as the average European or American, we would need three… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The Mars Rover sent back stunning photos [last week] indicating the past presence of water. The pictures show tiny splotches of blue… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
They were gone and I missed them but even so I was very happy. For the rest of my life no matter… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
There is a further advantage [to hydrogen bombs]: the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it might be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every moment each human being is doing the best we know at that moment to meet our needs. We never do anything… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image