Space Quotes - Page 106

I tried to be all intellectual and erudite and with others I'd just swear and curse and be an idiot. And suddenly, when they're all in one space, I don't know who I am.

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space.

The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist. The Einstein theory is a fallacy. The theory that ether does not exist, and that gravity is not a force but a property of space can only be described as a crazy vagary, a disgrace to our age.

Every month we do a bold adventure. This is the golden age of space exploration.

I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a chance to develop and mature some systems; long duration, deep space stuff; and you're close enough to get some help, via radio from Earth.

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces

The hardest thing is to make this little space for yourself where you can think and not get inundated with other stuff coming in.

I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.

Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the space and the detail of her work with the actors, and I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with Light Shining.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

You're in my personal space, so get out of it.

Women are allowed to enter the spaces of the senses, the space of the body, the spaces opened by sensations, all kinds of feelings, but women are not allowed to enter the spaces of reason to the same extent, that is to say the space of ideas, political ideas.

We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged.

Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism.

Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow.

I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.

Long-term, I see robotics prevailing on the moon. . . . The most important decision we'll have to make about space travel is whether to commit to a permanent human presence on Mars. Without it, we'll never be a true space-faring people.

Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.

The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.

The feeling of reduced gravity and the limitations of the space suit resulted in a slow-motion movement. Perhaps not too far from a trampoline, but without the springiness and instability.