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Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, 'What?'

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 5, 1958

Topics

Fight Transportation Alien Said Run

I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.

Jennifer Garner

Cute Wish I Wish Jeans Gain Weight

If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

Max Levchin

Work Building You Living Product

My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

Parents Wonderful Bohemian Practical

I was asked by this British band called Kairos 4Tet to write lyrics for them. And I wrote lyrics for them. The album is called 'Everything We Hold,' and you can hear my lyrics.

Rupert Friend

You Band Write Everything Hold Hear

Both my parents were high school teachers, and they were beloved high school teachers, so I constantly meet people through my dad's life where they'd be like, 'Your dad changed my life. He's the reason I became a lawyer. He's the reason I started writing. He's the only reason I stayed in school.'

Janet Varney

Life School Parents People Writing

Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home.

Don Everly

Learning Home Fool War Me Song

The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal of Christian hatred toward Jesus' people.

Dennis Prager

Best People Christian Friends Create

I'd rather have fewer spectacular theaters than tons of cheap little multiplexes.

Douglas Trumbull

Cheap Little Rather Than Spectacular

The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.

Mario Diaz-Balart

Matters Last Only Cast Votes After

Nobody gets anything for nothing.

Gloria Swanson

Nobody Nothing Anything Gets

I liked to watch the expression in the fighter's face change when you connected with him. You know when you connect in the right spot. It's like a tunnel vision.

Gerry Cooney

Change Vision Face You Know Fighter

Facebook has stitched together your social graph. The idea of an interest graph is to bring together everyone that has shared interests. If I can isolate the people who are into mountain biking in Marin, in one place, the ability to put ads against that is really high.

Bill Gurley

Together Mountain People I Can Place