Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.
David Shenk
For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are
Dr. Carl Sagan
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief ...
Richard Dawkins
It`s kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well. Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren`t loo...
Diane Keaton
Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn`t really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He`s not from another planet,...
Christopher Nolan
[speaking about the reshoots of Superman II (1980) after changing directors] It was usually done whenever a set doubled or we had a problem with expensive actors being available. I remember we did many scenes from the Daily Planet, if not all of them, whi...
Christopher Reeve
[on his favourite scene in Attack Of The Clones] "I love the sequence in which Obi-Wan visits Yoda when he`s giving lessons to the Jedi apprentices. At that moment, an image of the universe is projected because Obi-Wan is looking for the planet Kamino. I ...
Hayden Christensen
I`m not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in. Actually, I think that it`s the comedians who are the darkest people on the planet, because they think life`s just b...
Naomi Watts
[when asked what comic books he likes] I`m a Marvel guy. Superman was my favorite at first when I was a young kid. But even as a kid, after seeing him lift a planet one issue, race around the world in a half a second the next, then get beat by the Toy Man...
Kevin Grevioux
On the best thing about playing a Star Trek captain: "I was very excited. I was a huge fan of the original Star Trek, and I`d never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship... I`m a big fan of the future of space programs on this planet,...
Scott Bakula
I actually don`t meet very many men because they are, I guess, afraid to approach me or think that I`m from another planet. - on turning 30, to the German magazine Stern
Claudia Schiffer
A consensus has emerged in our scientific community that global warming is no longer merely a theory but a reality, a crisis with truly global implications for planet Earth and all of us who share it. - Told to thousands at the New Jersey concert for Live...
Leonardo DiCaprio
[on Chicago] I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can . . . The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It`s one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I`m in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
Jeremy Piven
I can`t imagine being somebody else. And anything I play, my reference is completely from the planet Showbusiness. I don`t know anything about anybody else, people that I`ve known all my life - my family, my brothers - I don`t know... I only know about me...
Christopher Walken
I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don`t do things to shock people. I`m not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don`t know how long I`m going to be on this planet. So while I`m here, I might as well make the most of it.
Eminem
I don`t think anyone should be educated sexually. There`s far too many people on the planet. If we could hush it up for a few years, that would help.
John Cleese