Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicole Krauss

If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

Nicole Krauss

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

Nicole Krauss

Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.

N. Scott Momaday

To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.

Morris Kline

In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.

Mike McCurry

By and large, people are sort of technologically averse in the political space.

Paulo Freire

For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space." "Those who are served by the present limit-situation regard the untested feasibility as a threatening limit-situation which must not be allowed to materialize, and act to maintain the status quo.

Pharrell Williams

You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you

Peter Diamandis

You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commercially into space were one way. You sort of like, got rid of them. And most passengers, who go up, do want to come back down.

Peter Diamandis

I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space.

Peter Diamandis

The first trillionaire can be made in space.

Penn Jillette

Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see.

Paulo Coelho

Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers.

May Sarton

It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond household chores and family life. Their lives are fragmented... the cry not so much for a 'a room of one's own' as time of one's own. Conflict become acute, whatever it may be about, when there is no margin left on any day in which to try at least to resolve it.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

You need the noise of your friends in space.

Peter Diamandis

And that's what we need to do in the space world to get to that point,

Space will be around for just so long because of development pressures.

As with any thrill attraction, Mission: Space is not for all guests.

They need more space and they need more privacy.

This is a significant breakthrough of China's space technology.

Rusty Schweickart

You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

Romain Rolland

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

Roma Downey

Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation.

Susan Orlean

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

Sunny Murray

And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go.

Sufjan Stevens

There's such a magnitude of record taking. It's so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations to a variety of physical theories. In contrast, the only elements in the construction of black holes are our basic concepts of space and time. They are, thus, almost by definition, the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

Story Musgrave

Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.

Story Musgrave

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

Sting

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

Stewart Brand

One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively light because it doesn't have gravity to deal with.