Quotes About Weightlessness

I always figured we were born to fly, one way or other, so I couldn't stand most men shuffling along with all the iron of the earth in their blood. I never met a man who weighed less than nine hundred pounds.

being weightless is a sensation hard to fathom when you've been an earthling all your life

When the engine cut off and we were in orbit, it was surreal.

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

La vie consiste à se laisser aller. Elle, c'était tout ce qu'elle voulait : se laisser aller. Ne plus sentir le poids de chaque seconde. Elle voulait retrouver une légèreté, fût-elle insoutenable.

As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, "the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

It's much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.

The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.

Piedodiet man, bet es neturu god? neko smag?ku par gaisu.

While you're in space, you grow in height! Without the constant force of gravity on your spine, it stretches out, and you're actually taller when you land. It doesn't last long though.

Maybe because the human body was built to float.

The Soyuz craft weighs tons, and you're lying on the floor of it on your back. But the Russians do tell you, remember, before you land, stop talking so you don't bite your tongue off.

On Earth, I weighed 150 pounds; my suit and backpack weighed another 150. 300 pounds. Up there, I weighed only 50. So I could prance around on my toes. It was quite easy to do.

Weightlessness was unbelievable. It's physical euphoria: Nothing about you has any weight. You don't realize that you are weighed down all the time by yourself, and your organs, and your head. Your arms weigh down your shoulders. In space simulation, you get to fly like Superman! You're hanging in the air! It's the coolest thing.

I still dream about being on the space station with the feeling of being weightless. The weightlessness is the most amazing, relaxing and natural feeling.

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at this beautiful Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.

That's really why I want to go to space - I want to be weightless for so long that it gets boring.

I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

The Sucking [of the blood] mesmerized me; the warm struggling of the man was soothing to the tension of my hands; and there came the beating of the drum again, which was the drumbeat of his heart - only this time it beat in perfect rhythm with the drumbeat of my own heart, the two resounding in every fiber of my being, until the bet began to grow slower and slower, so that each was a soft rumble that that threatened to go on without end.I was drowsing, falling into weightlessness;

Weightlessness is a wonderful experience. It feels like magic. It really does.

For sky diving, I was thrilled about coming down in a parachute but didn't think about the weightlessness or free fall that I would experience.

I meno abili, in mancanza di parole e di frasi nelle quali racchiuderla, colgono, della vita, un'immagine povera e piatta; Altri l'appesantiscono, l'ammantano di una dignità che non possiede. Altri ancora, al contrario, l'alleggeriscono, ne fanno una palla vuota e saltellante, che è facile prendere e lanciare in un universo senza peso.