Aliens Quotes - Page 28

• If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -- risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Safety, Culture

  Parker J. Palmer (2017). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.48, John Wiley & Sons

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• My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

  Richard Bach

  Home, Airplane, Flying

  Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Buy my album because... it's the kind of music you can be friends with. And it's the only way that *pause* aliens won't come to Earth and destroy us. I am sure of this.

  Darren Criss

  Albums, Earth, Way

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• I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

  Rand Beers

  Eight, Chinese, United States

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• The heart of a woman falls back with the night, / And enters some alien cage in its plight, / And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars / While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Stars, Fall, Heart

  Georgia Douglas Johnson, “The Heart Of A Woman”

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• I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

  Henri Matisse

  Today, Normal, Driven

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• Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Home, Army

  Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

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• Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Democracies Have, Government, Voters

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's address in Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938.

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• The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Lying, Men

  "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it's possible for them to make another one, but we have no plans.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Directors, Different, Use

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• Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Intelligent, Earth, Decided

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson: ‘We Don’t Know What’s Driving 96% Of The Universe’". Interview with Cara Santa Maria, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

  Paul Auster

  Eye, Who We Are, Ifs

  Paul Auster (2012). “Winter Journal”, p.101, Faber & Faber

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• It's the 50th year of Doctor Who and look what's going on! We're up in the sky and under the sea! We're running round the rings of an alien world and then a haunted house. There's new Cybermen, new Ice Warriors and a never before attempted journey to the centre of the TARDIS. And in the finale, the Doctor's greatest secret will at last be revealed! If this wasn't already our most exciting year it would be anyway!

  Steven Moffat

  Running, Warrior, Journey

  "‘Doctor Who’ Premiere: Poster Of The Doctor And New Companion". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• I've long been against illegal aliens, partly because they distract us from an even bigger threat: real aliens.

  Stephen Colbert

  Real, Long, Illegal

  "Stephen Colbert for U.S. Senate! (Seriously)" by Dean Obeidallah, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes - one rich, one poor - both in a permanent state of conflict and neither able to get ahead except at the expense of the other? Since when do we in America accept this alien and discredited theory of social and class warfare? Since when do we in America endorse the politics of envy and division?

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, America, Class

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Here's a near-future space adventure that's as frightening as it is smart. Jeremy Robinson's BENEATH is packed with believable tech, a page-turning story and an alien intelligence so creepy, you'll pray NASA never makes it past the moon.

  J. C. Hutchins

  Smart, Adventure, Past

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• If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?

  William Hartnell

  Sky, Bird, Watches

  "Fictional character: The Doctor". TV Series "Doctor Who", (1.1, "An Unearthly Child"), 23 November - 14 December, 1963.

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• I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Thinking, Actors, Has Beens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just got my work visa to shoot American Horror Story, and my official status is "alien with extraordinary abilities."

  Lizzie Brochere

  Horror Stories, American Horror Story, Ability

  "Talking About Aliens with Lizzie Brocheré". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Confused, Giving, Black

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• If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.

  Michael Moriarty

  Giving, Imagination, Want

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• I'm-going-to-tilt-my-head-at-a-perpendicular-angle-and-then-attempt-to-extract-your-soul-through-your-mouth-like-some-giant-alien-sucker-fish

  Burt Lancaster

  Soul, Giants, Tilt

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• We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldnt want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach.

  Stephen Hawking

  Home, Intelligent, Alien Life

  "Is There Intelligent Life in the Universe?" by Michio Kaku, bigthink.com.

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• I think if we can accept Thor as a frog and a horse-faced alien, we should be able to accept a woman being able to pick up that hammer and wield it for a while.

  Jason Aaron

  Horse, Thinking, Hammers

  "Marvel Comics Writers Explain Why They're Making Thor a Woman". Interview with Eliana Dockterman, time.com. July 15, 2014.

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• The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis; but in academia there is virtually nothing but noetic minds to be found, and the very idea of gnosis is alien and untranslatable, not to mention discreditable.

  Kenny Smith

  Education, Color, Ideas

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