Andromeda Quotes:

The Princess Andromeda?" "Went ka-boom.

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.27, Penguin UK

topic: Princess, Andromeda

I really liked it [The Andromeda Strain], and I don't know that it ever had the effect they were hoping for. I don't know if they got the audience we were hoping for. But I thought it was very fun, and I loved the character [Jack Nash] I was playing.

- Eric McCormack

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Fun, Character, Andromeda

That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Science, Thinking, Way, Galaxy, Milky Way

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

- Stanley Kubrick

topic: Destruction, Scales, Planets, Nebula, Andromeda

It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?

- Carl Sagan

topic: Couple, Lying, Reading, Galaxy, Numinous

The Andromeda strain is a killer disease that they've got to prevent from spreading to being 100 percent contagious. It's another one where we're racing to save humanity.

- Eric McCormack

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Humanity, Racing, Disease, Andromeda

There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot.

- George Carlin

topic: Mathematical Logic, People, Three, Witty One Liners, Funny One Liner

These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For.

- George Lucas

source: George Lucas, Sally Kline (1999). “George Lucas: Interviews”, p.208, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: War, Jedi Knights, Books And Movies, Best Film, Star Wars Movie

[Jack Nash] was very different than anything I'd played. In fact, there's a scene I have in a tent with Louis Ferreira, who just did an episode of Travelers. He was in the fourth episode of Travelers playing another team leader, and we really have it out, not unlike the way we did in the tent in Andromeda.

- Eric McCormack

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Team, Leader, Different, Andromeda, Team Leader

A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.

- Bill Gaede

topic: Eye, Wave, Mathematician, Electromagnetic Waves, Andromeda

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

- Ricky Schroder

topic: Games, Play, Chess, Andromeda

[Jack Nash from The Andromeda Strain] was not in the original film, but he was kind of a Geraldo Rivera almost kind of reporter that had a drug addiction. We start the story in rehab, and then he gets the roots of the story. I loved him.

- Eric McCormack

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Roots, Addiction, Drug, Strain, Andromeda

Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.

- James D. Watson

topic: Dna, Nuts, Wings, Andromeda

i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something.

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

topic: Sacrifice, Rocks, Sea, Report Cards, Andromeda

Beckendorf closed eyes tight and brought his hand up to his watch. from that distance, the explosion shook the world. Heat seared the back of my head. The Princess Andromeda blew up from both sides, a massive fireball of green flame roiling into the dark sky, consuming everything....I stared out the window into deep blue water. Beckendorf was supposed to go to college in the fall. He had a girlfriend, lots of friends, his whole life ahead of him. He couldn't be gone.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Girlfriend, Distance, Princess, Closed Eyes, Dark Sky

Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.

- Halton Arp

topic: Stars, Science, Clouds, Handkerchiefs, Astronomers