Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Mehretu

The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and make sense of who I was in my time and space and political environment. But there’s only so much truth to a theoretical understanding of something.

Justin Cronin

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

Jules Renard

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

Karl Jaspers

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought

K. Eric Drexler

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.

Paul Davies

Very, very slowly, the dwarf remnants of what was once our mighty sun will cool and dim, until it embarks on its final metamorphosis, gradually solidifying into a crystal of extraordinary rigidity. Eventually it will fade out completely, merging quietly into the blackness of space.

Patrick Stewart

I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

Frank Lampard

As far as I see it you just can't give Messi space in the dangerous areas - we have to close him down, get tight and give him as little room as we can because if you don't, he can destroy you.

Frank Luntz

Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans.

Maggie Stiefvater

It's like scrying into that weird space. There's so much coming out of him, it shouldn't be possible. Do you remember that woman who came in who was pregnant with quadruplets? It was like that, but worse." "He's pregnant?" Blue asked.

Maggie Stiefvater

I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space

Haruki Murakami

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

Haruki Murakami

A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.

Gustav Mahler

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

Meg Cabot

I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.

Maya Angelou

Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.

Max Cannon

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

Max Beckmann

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

Max Beckmann

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

Kirk Hammett

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.

Kim Wilde

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

Kiki Smith

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

Kim Cattrall

Your dressing area should be your private space.

Kathleen Hanna

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

Karl Malone

Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

Karl Marx

Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds.

Judith Guest

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

Judith Butler

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

It was just amazing, ... There was no waste of space.

Jim Crace

There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.

Jessica Valenti

Obviously Feministing is kind of a women's space in a certain way, even though we have a lot of male readership and people who don't identify as women.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that -perhaps you won't, but it doesn't matter, just listen to this- you will find that there is an extraordinary space in the mind, and that space is freedom. So you must demand freedom at the very beginning, and not just wait, hoping to have it at the end. You must seek out the significance of freedom in your work, in your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that meditation is creation.