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It's those few unusual things that really tell you the story of the solar system.


Joel Parker

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON What is the Other?" they ask.
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PAULO COELHO This comet formed at very edge of the solar system ... out by pluto ... and spent all its lifetime o...
DON BROWNLEE This is really a great day for NASA and the exploration of our solar system.
ANDREW DANTZLER This is really a great day for NASA and the exploration of our solar system.
ANDY DANTZLER The money has only been entering the system in the last few months in most jurisdictions, ... Though...
BRIAN POSTL The story really is, in a way, Joel -- doing what he did while dealing with this illness,
JOHN RIGGINS These results tell us that up to half of the material in the disk is ice. This fits in with the pict...
KLAUS PONTOPPIDAN We did this mission to collect the most primitive materials we could in the solar system. We went to...
DON BROWNLEE The solar system that likely will be formed around this star will include planets orbiting in differ...
JAN HOLLIS It's always exciting to find a new object in the solar system. This gives us further support that a ...
HAL WEAVER If you wish to study what the solar system is made of you study comets.
DONALD YEOMANS This is the first reconnaissance mission of this region of the solar system. It's the only one of th...
HAL WEAVER Mac has a sexy breakfast story.” “Really?” Eyebrows lifted, Parker set the syrup and butter on...
NORA ROBERTS We're collecting things that are very ancient and even older than our solar system. We are literally...
DON BROWNLEE We were delighted to have worked with Microsoft on its electric solar system. Microsoft is effective...
DAN SHUGAR This is a solar system that ran out of gas.
SCOTT GAUDI The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.
BRUCE FEILER I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.
ERIC DANE It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS The five solid rocket boosters are burning just fine, sending the New Horizons spacecraft on its way...
BRUCE BUCKINGHAM Terry was conscious of all those things and wanted to tell the story as he had read it in the histor...
COLIN FARRELL There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one ...
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WALTER LANG It's almost like a cryogenic preservation chamber of what the solar system was like 4 billion years ...
MAX MUTCHLER I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the r...
KEANU REEVES When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece ...
KALPANA CHAWLA I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny ...
MARTIN REES How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that...
PIERRE COFFIN I just like looking at how you tell the story. It's really good.
FARLEY FLEX There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writ...
JULIA GLASS All of the thrusting is in the inner solar system, then it coasts.
LES JOHNSON I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.
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JOHN LASSETER Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.
CAROLYN PORCO one day I will tell you a story. A story that will make you ponder. A story that will make you wonde...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The big picture comes when you step back and realize this is the one generation making the atlas of ...
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THOMAS MASSIE We're sitting in a shooting gallery, with hundreds of thousands of these things whizzing around in t...
RUSTY SCHWEICKART Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.
MARK STRAND The discovery of a solar system object larger than Pluto is very exciting.
WILHELM ALTENHOFF Uranus is one of the most chaotic and disruptive systems in the solar system.
MARK SHOWALTER It's thrilling. We have samples of a comet from the edge of the solar system.
DONALD BROWNLEE The solar system is not a stable and quiet place.
JACK LISSAUER This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moon...
ALAN STERN These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system. All of the atoms in our bodies - th...
DON BROWNLEE It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
DAN QUAYLE [It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.
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RICHARD BINZEL All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how...
SARAH ZETTEL Boy, that Simon System must really work when you look at those guys.
MICHAEL COLE In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an...
BERTRAND RUSSELL This will be humankind's first planned venture outside the solar system.
LES JOHNSON The results provide insight into the formation and evolution of bodies in the outer solar system.
AMANDA GULBIS Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if yo...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. We believe they hold the most primitive materials in the solar system and that they played a role in...
JOSEPH VEVERKA We are confident [the comet] was made out of the initial building blocks of our solar system.
DON BROWNLEE You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our...
BILL JOHNSON The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to th...
JOSE MOURINHO To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it,...
BLAISE PASCAL It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
DAN QUAYLE Getting to Mars, we feel, is the definitive step that will open up the solar system to humanity.
JOSEPH PALAIA We're going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system.
ELLEN STOFAN A Bluesman hates to be told what to do. Authority rankles him, inspires his rebellion, and plays to ...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses tho...
GARY JOHNSON Sometimes if you tell me what a story is about in just a few sentences, I can tell you if it's g...
DAVID L. WOLPER Nashville was one of those teams that was really suffering financially under the old system.
ANDY BERNSTEIN News coverage is one element among a whole solar system of elements that shapes how people react to ...
CLARENCE WYATT Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And y...
JACQUELINE WINSPEAR We decided what we wanted in our house and built the solar system around that. Our house is an affor...
ALEX JAMES The disk of dust orbiting a star, similar to the dust we feel formed our solar system.
MICHAEL WERNER I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.
STEPHEN HAWKING I?m proud to tell you that, things are going ? under the circumstances ? really well.
JACKIE LUPO Without a past you can't have a future.
MICHAEL ENDE Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember ...
MICHAEL ENDE We saw incredible features -- steep cliffs, overhanging cliffs, spires and many other things we had ...
DON BROWNLEE As a lawyer, particularly in criminal law, you really do have to try to tell your story to the jury ...
MARCIA CLARK Fire numbers and acres did not really tell the true story of what type of situation we really had.
KIRK CASANOVA One of the things that makes something news is that it's unusual.
CAROLYN M. BYERLY Americans are in need of an all-of-the-above energy approach, and when you think about all-of-the-ab...
JEFF DUNCAN But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrup...
JAMES DASHNER Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is...
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RENEE AHDIEH The planets in our solar system, the precursors anyway, probably went through this stage.
DEREK RICHARDSON The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a...
BILLY HIGGINS As of now it has been analyzed and estimated that our Sun’s mass consists of around 99.9% of the t...
THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU As any journalist will tell you, there are few professional situations as vexing as when a friend be...
GRAYDON CARTER I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON We think a lot of secrets about the formation and evolution of the solar system will be found there.
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AUSTIN PECK The giraffe can behave like the gazelle, but its neck will always tell a story!
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ELLEN STOFAN With increased surveillance its not unusual that you would pick up more cases.
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They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
THEODORE PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
DOROTHY PARKER Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the th...
DOROTHY PARKER It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him...
THEODORE PARKER I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four...
DOROTHY PARKER Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
DOROTHY PARKER Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (B...
DOROTHY PARKER It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
DOROTHY PARKER He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
DOROTHY PARKER And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it tru...
DOROTHY PARKER Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground al...
DOROTHY PARKER