Space famous quotes
04-23-2025
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The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
-- A. E. van Vogt -
Tomer: “What's this?†Cabinet: “Wt's ths?†Wedge: “Cabinet.†Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.†Cabinet: “...ts tlkng†Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.†Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.†Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.
-- Aaron Allston -
Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.
-- Aaron Belz -
Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion.
-- Aaron Cohen -
Your belief system saturates the space around you.
-- Aaron Huey -
Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
-- Abby Sunderland -
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
-- Abdullah Ibrahim -
The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?
-- Abhinavagupta -
Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
-- Abraham Cowley -
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.
-- Abraham Polonsky -
When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
-- Ace Frehley -
I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
-- Ace Frehley -
One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
-- Adam Ant -
I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.
-- Adam Driver -
In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
-- Adam Gopnik -
When we are in our studios, in our private space... we need to block out the outside world; we need to disbelieve anything that would doubt us, because - everyone will doubt us if we allow them that space.
-- Adam Leipzig -
In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.
-- Adam Leipzig -
The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.
-- Adam Parfrey -
It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy.
-- Adam Riess -
Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.
-- Adam Schiff -
Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy performing such experiments for real. In response, Krzhizhanovsky's prose has a recklessly unstable tone in which delighted examination of impossible worlds can slip into ferocious political sarcasm.... It is a method for investigating how much unreality reality can bear.
-- Adam Thirlwell -
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
-- Adi Shankara -
The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence. In fact, animal locomotion is no different than other flows, animate and inanimate they all develop in space and in time such that they optimize the flow of material.
-- Adrian Bejan -
When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also grasped that the empty spaces are the most important aspect of a typeface.
-- Adrian Frutiger -
I am sure in some years from now you will see new posters with just white space and four lines in Garamond.
-- Adrian Frutiger -
The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.
-- Adrian Frutiger -
I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.
-- Adrian Lyne -
There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
-- Adyashanti -
Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.
-- Aga Khan IV -
To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
-- Agnes de Mille -
If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
-- Ahdaf Soueif -
Sometimes isn’t it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things.
-- Ai Yazawa -
I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
-- Aimee Bender -
I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
-- Aimee Bender -
Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
-- Aimee Bender -
A person is not earth, not water, Not fire, not wind, not space, Not consciousness, and not all of them. What person is there other than these?
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.
-- Akon -
We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.
-- Al Gore -
To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.
-- Al Gore -
I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
-- Al Yankovic -
Darkness is where we begin and where we end. We don't usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance.
-- Ala Bashir -
Eventually there are going to be cities in space.
-- Alan Bean -
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
-- Alan Bennett -
If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
-- Alan Cohen -
The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.
-- Alan Cohen -
I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.
-- Alan Davies -
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
-- Alan Garner -
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
-- Alan Guth -
In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.
-- Alan Guth -
We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they're not like him. Once that gets started, he gets backed by so much cash and so much power that he becomes a monstrous invader from outer space, crushing the life out of all the other human possibilities. My life has been devoted to opposing that tendency.
-- Alan Lomax -
One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.
-- Alan Rickman -
I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.
-- Alan Shepard -
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
-- Alan Shepard -
The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.
-- Alan Shepard -
So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.
-- Alan Shepard -
We're going to see passengers in space stations in 15 years, who will be able to buy a ticket and spend a weekend in space.
-- Alan Shepard -
The same way people are now paying a couple thousand dollars to fly to other parts of the world, people will be paying $50,000 to spend a weekend on a space station.
-- Alan Shepard -
A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
-- Alan Turing -
But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?
-- Alan Vega -
There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks.
-- Alan Watts -
As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.
-- Alan Watts -
To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!
-- Alan Watts -
I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
-- Albert Camus -
To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.
-- Albert Camus -
I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But I felt that such a negative answer was only part of the truth. I told him that in this universe in which we live, unbounded in space, infinite in stored energy and, who knows, unlimited in time, the adequate and positive answer, according to my belief, is that this universe may, also, possess infinite potentialities.
-- Albert Claude -
I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
-- Albert Einstein -
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
-- Albert Einstein -
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
-- Albert Einstein -
You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space.
-- Albert Hadley -
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.
-- Alberto Manguel -
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.
-- Alberto Manguel -
The Divine does not come from somewhere above, it exists beyond time and space, and informs all life.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
Only when all conceptions of space and time, life and death, are exploded, when the grip of the past and fear of the future become merely conditions of one's past, only then can one live in the present fully.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.
-- Aldous Huxley -
An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is a bare stage where the inert I is assisted by the I suffering from that inertia. The latter wishes to free the former, but all efforts fail, as Theseus would have failed had he been not only himself but also the Minotaur; to kill him then, he would have had to kill himself
-- Alejandra Pizarnik -
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.
-- Alex Caceres -
I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.
-- Alex Garland -
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
-- Alex Grey -
Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.
-- Alex Grey -
The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.
-- Alexander Calder -
If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.
-- Alexander Calder -
Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets.
-- Alexander Elder -
Successful trading depends on the 3M`s - Mind, Method and Money. Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets. Each trader needs to have a method for choosing specific stocks, options or futures as well as firm rules for pulling the trigger - deciding when to buy and sell. Money refers to how you manage your trading capital.
-- Alexander Elder -
Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
-- Alexander Pope -
At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.
-- Alexander von Humboldt -
They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
-- Alexei Sayle -
I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
-- Alexey Leonov -
As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director. I realized that being an astronaut was not going to be an option, so I said, "Well, I'm going to be a director and do films in space."
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots.
-- Alfonso Cuaron
