2036 Asteroid Quotes

#1. In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#2. I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.

Steve Jobs

#3. My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock, rocks, uranium. Peter and John were two of the twelve apostles - arguable the two most significant. Were my parents hedging their bets?

Peter Greenaway

#4. I stand up. Stretch my arms out wide to the
empty horizon. Do not be afraid of limitless
possibilities. The desert is infinite to the eye
as love is to the heart.

Cathy Ostlere

#5. When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.

F. W. De Klerk

#6. You're the inventor," Klaus answered, buttoning his coat. "But you can't invent things like time,

Lemony Snicket

#7. Innocence is defined in dictionaries as freedom from guilt or sin, especially from lack of knowledge; purity of heart; blamelessness; guilelessness; simplicity, etc.

William Maxwell

#8. I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#9. Illusion never changed into something real.

Natalie Imbruglia

#10. You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

Honore De Balzac

#11. I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.

Fred Seibert

#12. Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility - about 1 in 45,000 - that an 850-foot-long asteroid called Apophis could strike Earth with catastrophic consequences on April 13, 2036.

Rusty Schweickart

#13. The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful.

Kevin Keegan

#14. Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations ...

C. G. Jung

#15. As Samuel Spaulding, Esquire, once said, 'Dig in the earth, delve in the soul.' Spin those mower blades, Bill, and walk in the spray of the Fountain of Youth. End of lecture. Besides, a mess of dandelion greens is good eating once in a while.

Ray Bradbury

#16. Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means.

Isak Dinesen