Watney Quotes

#1. I'm calling it the Watney Triangle because after what I've been through, shit on Mars should be named after me.

Andy Weir

#2. 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

#3. I'm pretty close with a lot of guys, like Nick Watney and Steve Marino, D.J. Trahan and Charlie Warren.

Dustin Johnson

#4. Also, please watch your language. Everything you type is being broadcast live all over the world. [12:15] WATNEY: Look! A pair of boobs! - (.Y.)

Andy Weir

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

James S.A. Corey

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

Andy Weir

#7. 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

#8. Mark Watney, out of Mars.

James S.A. Corey

#9. [08:31] JPL: Good, keep us posted on any mechanical or electronic problems. By the way, the name of the probe we're sending is Iris. Named after the Greek goddess who traveled the heavens with the speed of wind. She's also the goddess of rainbows. [08:47] WATNEY: Gay probe coming to save me. Got it.

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

Andy Weir

#12. MINDY TRUDGED to her computer. Today's shift began at 2:10 p.m. Her schedule matched Watney's every day. She slept when he slept. Watney simply slept at night on Mars, while Mindy had to drift forty minutes forward every day, taping aluminum foil to her windows to get any sleep at all.

Andy Weir

#13. Everything just changed. Watney's headed for Pathfinder.

Andy Weir

#14. 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

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

Andy Weir

#16. Watney snorted in their direction. Then he closed his eyes and felt the sun on his face. It was a nice, boring afternoon.

Andy Weir

#17. I admit it's fatally dangerous," Watney said. "But consider this: I'd get to fly around like Iron Man." "We'll keep working on ideas," Lewis said. "Iron Man, Commander. Iron Man.

Andy Weir

#18. WATNEY: Look! A pair of boobs! - (.Y.).

Andy Weir

#19. 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

#20. We're bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below.

Anne Lamott

#21. Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.

Jim Rohn

#22. I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.

Isaac Mizrahi

#23. In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.

Edward Tatum

#24. We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.

David Letterman

#25. A man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.

Carol Grace

#26. 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

#27. My backpack has seven or eight DVDs in it and four or five of them have been there three months and I'm desperate to get to them.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#28. Habits are products of our choice; we are what we make of ourselves.

E.W. Kenyon

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

Andy Weir

#30. Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.

Jon Foreman

#31. Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

Thomas Browne

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

Andy Weir

#33. Even women are perfect at the outset.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#34. The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.

Swami Vivekananda

#35. Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith.

Ellen G. White