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If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. Stephen Hawking

America, Turn, Us, Out, Well, Visit

It's a funny thing. I'll be in my home town of Columbus at a restaurant or something, and the waiter maybe asks, 'What do you do?' and I say, 'Oh, I'm in a band... Twenty One Pilots,' and he'll say, 'Cool, I'll check it out. I never heard of them.' And then I say, 'In September we're playing the Schottenstein Center,' and it's like, 'What?!' Tyler Joseph

Funny, Home, Cool, You, Restaurant, Say

Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also spent his time in public service, not in jail, and his passing was marked by world-wide encomiums. He ended his days as a celebrated explorer rather than a royal inconvenience. Seth Shostak

Time, Service, Royal, Famous, Better

Haiti and the Dominican Republic don't just share an island, Hispaniola, but a history, one that includes all the signal events that went into creating the modern world: Columbus, conquest, genocide, slavery, imperial war, revolution, and U.S. counterinsurgencies and military occupations. Greg Grandin

War, History, World, Slavery, Revolution

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. - James Joyce

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. James Joyce

Funny, America, Everyone, Last, Because

I've always had strong ties with Delhi, and I do stay in touch with my friends and periodically visit the capital. I started my schooling at St. Columbus High School before I went to Mayo College. Delhi, for me, is a historical city with all its beautiful monuments. Ajay Mehta

Beautiful, School, City, Me, Strong

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. Arthur Goldberg

Committee, He, Still, Would, Had, Dock

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale. Umberto Eco

History, Thought, Looking, India, Events

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal. John Waters

Hate, Day, Fake, You, Monday, Fall

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. L. Frank Baum

Imagination, Dark, Electricity, Present

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Henry David Thoreau

Thought, You, Opening, New, Trade, Whole

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. Oscar Wilde

America, Always, Up, Been, Before, Had

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. Carl Sagan

Clown, Some, Fact, Brothers, Who, Were

If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters? Andrew Young

Birthday, Election, Day, King, Moving

The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations. Neil deGrasse Tyson

History, People, Never, Exploration, Who

If I were to give advice to someone that just started a band and how to get someone's attention, you've gotta have a central hub. For us, it was Columbus, Ohio. Tyler Joseph

You, Someone, Advice, Attention, Band

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club. Jack Nicklaus

Work, Me, Hometown, Design, Back, Golf

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. Charles Kendall Adams

Heart, Fire, World, New, Old, Well

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. D. H. Lawrence

Work, History, Struggle, Great, Joy

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive. Milton Friedman

New, Seek, Response, Majority, Did

IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones. Gary Vaynerchuk

Age, People, Restaurant, Data, Circle

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place. Paul Theroux

Travel, You, Place, New, Person, Books

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it. Ken Kesey

World, Powerful, New, Box, First, Broke

The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold. Woody Harrelson

History, Day, Celebrate, Gold, America

I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy's camel-hair coat. James Rosenquist

Feet, Street, Circle, Purple, High, Up

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America? Abraham Polonsky

Live, Animal, Think, Place, Boy, Grow

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