Mark Watney Quotes

#1. Everyone, I understand your positions. We have procedures. Skipping those procedures means risk. Risk means trouble for your department. But now isn't the time to cover our asses. We have to take risks or Mark Watney dies.

Andy Weir

#2. Well, that concept is critical to the "Mark Watney doesn't die" project

Andy Weir

#3. The white flashed back into a red ball in the southeast. They all knew what it was. It was Orlando, or McCoy Base, or both. It was the power supply for Timucuan County.
Thus the lights went out, and in that moment civilization in Fort Repose retreated a hundred years.
So ended The Day.

Pat Frank

#4. No, we will not tell our botany team to go fuck themslves.

Andy Weir

#5. The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.

Ian McKellen

#6. Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.

Grace Jones

#7. In the middle column, the colony ships she and her fleet had taken: the Bedyadat Jadida, out of Luna. The John Galt and the Mark Watney, out of Mars. The

James S.A. Corey

#8. But you gotta admit, rules and principles are simpler than relationships.

Wm. Paul Young

#9. I'm not talking about faith in God, I'm talking about faith in Mark Watney

Andy Weir

#10. [11:49] JPL: What we can see of your planned cut looks good. We're assuming the other side is identical. You're cleared to start drilling. [12:07] Watney: That's what she said. [12:25] JPL: Seriously, Mark? Seriously?

Anonymous

#11. We didn't give it to him because he's a Muggle!" said Fred indignantly. "No, we gave it to him because he's a great bullying git," said George. "Isn't he, Harry?" "Yeah, he is, Mr. Weasley," said Harry earnestly.

J.K. Rowling

#12. Mark Watney, out of Mars.

James S.A. Corey

#13. Mars and my own stupidity keep trying to kill me.

Andy Weir

#14. Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.

Aaron McGruder

#16. Just so we're clear, Mark Watney is who I want to be. He has all the qualities I like about myself magnified without any of the qualities I dislike. Mark Watney isn't afraid to fly.

Andy Weir

#17. New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

Russell Baker

#18. Ayyyyyy!" Annie mocked. "Why would he do that?" "Have you met Mark Watney?

Andy Weir

#19. No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.

Lawrence Durrell

#20. Also, I'll lose half a liter of water per day to breathing until the humidity in the Hab reaches its maximum and water starts condensing on every surface. Then I'll be licking the walls. Yay.

Andy Weir

#21. Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

Louis Leterrier

#22. and the Mark Watney, out of Mars.

James S.A. Corey

#23. A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope

#24. Remember those old math questions you had in algebra class? Where water is entering a container at a certain rate and leaving at a different rate and you need to figure out when it'll be empty? Well, that concept is critical to the "Mark Watney doesn't die" project I'm working on.

Andy Weir

#25. critical pedagogy becomes a project that stresses the need for teachers and students to actively transform knowledge rather than simply consume it.

Henry A. Giroux