Quotes on Planet

It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet.

We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.

I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher and communicate how this planet is very overwhelming at this point. The difficulties we face are overwhelming. It's very difficult to give yourself the time to breathe and appreciate the joy and beauty that might be just right around us.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs.

Migratory birds connect people, ecosystems, and nations. They are symbols of peace and of an interconnected planet.

Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.

As artists, we can help, visually and intellectually, to make people understand that, at some point, we have to accept that it is our collective impact that is putting the whole planet in jeopardy.

Truly, we do live on a 'water planet.' For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It's the most precious substance on the planet, and it links us to pretty much every environmental issue, including climate change, that we're facing.

Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.

You don't like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be lied to when it comes to the origin of life or the fate of the planet?

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

The ocean is the source of life. We all come from there. I think about these one-celled creatures, and I think about the planet. It is related to my obsession with biology, even if it's only a layperson's obsession. The way I visualise what's at the bottom of the ocean is very much to do with how I feel when I'm swimming in the sea.

I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.

A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.