John Hodgman Quotes

With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science.

I'm that person at school who always had a cold and an eye patch and asthma.

Fear is ubiquitous in human life. It starts in infancy with our primal state of helplessness, where we can see what's going on but we can't move to get it. As we grow older we become a little more able to get what we want but then we're going to die so that gives fear another boost.

My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the body; it compensates for the body's fragility and vulnerability.

When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.

I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day or the winds that rip branches off trees. If we resist it or push it aside, we miss a powerful opportunity for awakening.

A bird can fly as high as it wants but it eventually has to come down to earth and get some water... and when it comes down to get that water that's when you strike.

Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

COUGHS. These are symptoms, not diseases. Take them to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about.

Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

I'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself.

The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days.

If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets.

I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience..... To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

In order to reinvent yourself, you have to dig deep and look at yourself. I'd lost my way creatively, and I was humbled, and so I think I got really basic about wanting to depict people in the ways that I find them amazing and funny and emotional and that I can relate to and do from an instinctive, gut place. People trying to survive ... That's what all my movies are about.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

Whatever you love most, you fear you might lose, you know it can change. Why do you look from left to right when you cross the street? Because you don’t want to get run over. But, you still cross the street.

You aren't alive if you aren't in need.