Quotes About Earthlings

Television is ephemeral, a fact that some will find reassuring. But earthlings will continue to pump the kilowatts into the ether. And eventually, when those signals have washed over a few hundred thousand star systems, someone may notice.

Her purse is half open, and I see a hotel room key, a metro ticket, and a hundred-franc note folded in four, like objects brought back by a space probe sent to earth to study how earthlings live, travel, and trade with one another. The sight leaves me pensive and confused. Does the cosmos contain keys for opening up my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking. I'll be off now.

I don't know how it is for you earthlings, but where I'm from, strength is mental.

The truth is, men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus. We are all earthlings whose penises and vaginas came from exactly the same type of fetal tissue. This is why, in addition to penises and vaginas, we also have a wide spectrum of intersex genitals, which medical science is only now slowly coming to accept as 'normal.

'Tammy,' the new movie starring, produced, and co-written by Melissa McCarthy, could be an artifact from some alternate universe: the creatures there resemble Earthlings but have an entirely different and debased idea of what's funny.

Your moon is always full, android. You Earthlings have such limited perspective.

Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.

Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.

How could we have sexual relations with extraterrestrials unless they were remarkably like us biologically? Why would extraterrestrials have any interest in having sexual intercourse with us unless we were very similar? Why do many male extraterrestrials find female Earthlings sexually alluring?

Noam Chomsky has famously argued that a Martian scientist would conclude that all earthlings speak dialects of the same language.

The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture – although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell this ship. Your talents were underrated.