Top 100 Quotes About Mars
#1. I'm fully aware," Firth told a reporter for the English magazine Now, "that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: 'Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.
Colin Firth
#2. Actually, we did a fun April Fools' thing with Google a couple of years ago, which we called Virgle. And we looked for volunteers to go on a one-way trip to Mars.
Richard Branson
#3. Britain should definitely be part of a Mars mission.
Helen Sharman
#4. I remember what a thrill it was to go from the back streets of Birmingham to Madison Square Garden in New York ... it's like playing on Mars. You can't buy that.
Ozzy Osbourne
#5. The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.
Buzz Aldrin
#6. I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.
George R R Martin
#7. Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.
Gregory Benford
#8. I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
Edgar Mitchell
#9. I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars.
William Beebe
#10. Jana looked beyond him and saw Mars. She ate Mars for breakfast with her eyes.
Randy Russell
#11. I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.
Buzz Aldrin
#12. Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?
Victoria Laurie
#13. Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.
Buzz Aldrin
#14. I know this song!'
Rosie laughed.
'If you didn't, that'd be the final proof that you're from Mars.
Graeme Simsion
#15. Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us?
William J. Clinton
#16. The Moon may not be quite as appealing as Mars, but it's still a complex and poorly understood world, with many questions still unanswered.
Henry Spencer
#17. Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
Clarence Darrow
#18. Undoubtedly we will go on to Mars in due course, provided we don't blow ourselves up with our stupidities in the short run. That's a possibility, too.
Edgar Mitchell
#19. We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is somewhere else entirely.
Gerard K. O'Neill
#20. Sometime I wish if I were from Mars, because no one loves me here.
M.F. Moonzajer
#21. There is a project that's underway called the interplanetary Internet. It's in operation between Earth and Mars. It's operating on the International Space Station. It's part of the spacecraft that's in orbit around the Sun that's rendezvoused with two planets.
Vint Cerf
#22. All the difficulties surrounding the making of 'Mars et Avril' actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!
Martin Villeneuve
#23. You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.
Jello Biafra
#24. Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And if there was, then why did it die out? What sort of catastrophe happened?
Valentina Tereshkova
#25. When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars.
Peter Diamandis
#26. If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.
Bill Nye
#27. The chances of anyone colonizing Mars are a million to one!" Or so the newspapers said. But still we came.
G.H. Finn
#29. Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.
Kurt Vonnegut
#30. Life on Mars would be awesome! Even single-celled life, although I admit that in my heart of hearts, I want it to be the barge-people of the canals.
Sarah Monette
#31. I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.
Elon Musk
#32. Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.
Bill Kurtis
#33. Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.
Kelly Link
#34. We are the only country with an operating rover on Mars. We are an amazing country on tech.
Megan Smith
#35. We reach with our hands
and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky
to reach the moon and Mars
but we still can't reach the truth
Tite Kubo
#36. I'd like to do something with Bruno Mars if we ever got the opportunity.
Mike Love
#38. I had joined Yes in 1971. I was a classically trained musician who had worked with numerous artists as a session musician. I played on David Bowie's 'Life On Mars,' Cat Stevens's 'Morning Has Broken' and even on some Des O'Connor records, though I kept that quiet.
Rick Wakeman
#39. Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.
David Jeremiah
#40. Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility.
Buzz Aldrin
#41. Conclusion: I don't need the water reclaimer at all. I'll drink as needed and dump my waste outdoors. Yeah, that's right, Mars, I'm gonna piss and shit on you. That's what you get for trying to kill me all the time.
Andy Weir
#42. I understand that NASA reported that there's new evidence of water on Mars. I'm here to report that we still don't have any evidence of affordable gasoline in Michigan.
David Bonior
#43. To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond.
Gregory Benford
#44. This place is full of shit. It's run by aliens from outer space. Sure, they make the food look Italian, they make it smell Italian, but it tastes like goo from Mars.
Mario Puzo
#45. The Mars rover Curiosity has sent back images of some odd things on the surface of Mars, and some people think they could be UFOs. Here's my question. If we're on the surface of Mars, aren't we the UFO?
Jay Leno
#46. Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.
Elon Musk
#47. What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
Jose Saramago
#48. When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically ... but that does not justify him in pretending ... that Christ is, in effect, Mars.
George Bernard Shaw
#49. It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.
Brad Sherman
#50. When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.
Buzz Aldrin
#51. The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.
David Ignatius
#52. Men are from Mars and women from Venus. Kids arrive when orbits collide.
Shikha Kaul
#53. Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.'
Andy Borowitz
#54. When people initially think of the term 'space archaeologist,' they think, 'Oh, it's someone who uses satellites to look for alien settlements on Mars or in outer space,' but the opposite is true - we're actually looking for evidence of past human life on planet earth.
Sarah Parcak
#55. I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close.
Arto Lindsay
#56. 'Veronica Mars' was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I don't even know why - suddenly straight.
Tessa Thompson
#58. Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.
Buzz Aldrin
#59. Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.
Frans Lanting
#61. Neil Mars?! I could blame him for having killer looks but he could not be faulted for this. He couldn't have chosen that name for himself. No wonder he tortures his Mom by calling her by her name.
Rucy Ban
#62. May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet, which is noticeable by the naked eye, and which led the ancients to personify it as a warrior?
Camille Flammarion
#63. I love that there are so many 'Veronica Mars' fans. I was not a regular on the show. I was lucky enough to just come on. I loved the character. But, I never really realized the rabid fans that it had. I just didn't know.
Ken Marino
#65. You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No one really does anger these days. I suppose it's a turn-off.
Peter Hook
#66. There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#67. We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.
Ray Bradbury
#68. How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!
William Shakespeare
#69. I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like.
Clyde Tombaugh
#70. I am not going to Mars unless they have a McD's dollar menu.
Steven Magee
#71. It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
Ray Bradbury
#72. Mars, therefore, is not only uninhabited by intelligent beings such as Mr. Lowell postulates, but is absolutely uninhabitable.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#73. We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.
Ray Bradbury
#74. By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
Buzz Aldrin
#75. The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one
H.G.Wells
#76. What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.
Buzz Aldrin
#77. The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
Nostradamus
#78. In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!
Carl Sagan
#79. [I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress - I listen to that.
Viola Davis
#80. Will Mars be always in your windy tongue and in your flying feet?
Virgil
#81. Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars.
Victor Hugo
#82. Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as being on all fours with its non-existence.
Richard Dawkins
#83. Compared to high-profile leaders with big personalities who make headlines and become celebrities, the good-to-great leaders seem to have come from Mars. Self-effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy - these leaders are a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will. They
James C. Collins
#84. It was obvious to me that we could never colonize Mars without reusability, any more than America would have been colonized if they had to burn the ships after every trip.
Elon Musk
#85. Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you.
Carl Sagan
#86. I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.
Daniel Radcliffe
#87. Maybe we can hold the windows and doors," Mars said doubtfully. The ruined building was little more than a shell, with no roof and gaping empty rectangles for windows. "But if they charge us ... " "They're charging!" Hel shouted.
Michael Scott
#88. I do not answer to a scarless Pixie whelp. I am a Peerless Scarred. ArchPrimus of the 542nd class of the Institute of Mars. I answer to the ArchGovernor alone.
Pierce Brown
#89. Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.
Paul Davies
#91. Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.
Janet Flanner
#92. Frank Zhang, you should know!" Frank flinched. "I should?" "A son of Ares stood here!" Hedge cried indignantly. "I'm Roman ... so Mars, actually." "Whatever! Famous spot in the American Civil War!" "I'm Canadian, actually.
Rick Riordan
#93. Wow." Percy handed back the book. "Maybe Mars is different than Ares. I don't think Ares can read.
Rick Riordan
#94. Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
Ikue Mori
#95. It's not that simple. We're talking about going to Mars. Living on Mars! How can I give up becoming one of the colonisers of another planet?
Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli
#96. I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.
Ray Bradbury
#97. Good morning, bright sunshine, We're glad you are here. You make the world happy, And bring us good cheer." It was something he had heard as a child and, isolated here on Mars, he had remembered it and used it to keep from losing his power of speech.
Various
#98. Walter Junior, were in the toolshed outside their home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina, when a Mark 6 atomic bomb landed in the yard. Mrs.
Eric Schlosser
#99. I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere!
Lee De Forest
#100. Romulus and Remus, twin sons of dark Mars and a human vestal, sucking at the dugs of a wolf bitch.
Jack Williamson
