Asteroid Impacts Quotes

#1. There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.

Rusty Schweickart

#2. Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

Nathan Myhrvold

#3. We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.

Rusty Schweickart

#4. When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.

Rusty Schweickart

#5. People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.

Robert Plant

#6. We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are.

Randy Neugebauer

#7. Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime.

Elliott Colla

#8. I have felt for a long time that I want to return back to being a singer-songwriter for a period of time. I will go back to Broadway. But I want to make the right choices about why to go back and when I am ready to go back.

Tony Vincent

#9. Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

Isocrates

#10. Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

Steven Holl

#11. Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.

Wynton Marsalis

#12. The average human being is a perverse creature; and when he isn't that, he is a practical joker. The result to the other person concerned is about the same: that is, he is made to suffer.

Mark Twain

#13. We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

Dave Barry

#14. In that moment, we were the same, each of us destroyed by our limited understanding of reality.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh