Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Simonyi

Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

Charles Stross

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

Charles Spurgeon

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

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.

Akon

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.

Chogyam Trungpa

You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.

Chogyam Trungpa

The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle

Chinua Achebe

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

Chick Corea

You've got to create the space, then fill it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You deserve to take up space.

Dave Gahan

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

Dave Franco

There's so much more freedom in film as far as subject matter and what can be said. And then, also, the process is different because there's more time. On movies there's just so much freedom and space to explore in front of the camera.

Dave Barry

We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it involves outer space.

David Tennant

We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.

David Tang

The beauty of the Internet is that there's no space limit.

David Suzuki

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

David R. Brower

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

David R. Brower

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.

Carl Sagan

Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.

Carl Sagan

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

Carl Sagan

Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.

Carter Heyward

The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.

Camille Paglia

My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.

Caitlin Moran

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead

Catherynne M. Valente

... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.

Carl Honore

The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University.

Marshall McLuhan

Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.

Charles Lindbergh

I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

Charles Lyell

Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have been created in succession at such times and in such places as to enable them to multiply and endure for an appointed period, and occupy an appointed space on the globe.

Charles Lindbergh

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.

Charles Lindbergh

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

Aimee Bender

I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

Aimee Bender

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.