Quotes About Space

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your dollar will go further.

I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

And don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there [space]. Man belongs wherever he wants to go — and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.

It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.

The deserts in which I have travelled had been blanks in time as well as space. They had no intelligible history, the nomads who inhabited them had no known past.

The urge to flee is a high-pitched whistle and I stare into a black cavity of space that stinks of urine and dead flowers. Of rotting oranges and leather and spray paint. I crawl into the space and find a corner. I stare into the shadows and I see several corpselike figures, coiled in burlap sacks around me. Sleeping drunks with the faces of dogs, of horses. I blink and they're not there.

Pensò al Giudizio universale. Non credeva che avrebbero davvero messo in piedi un simile evento. Gli imputati avevano argomenti per difendersi, alcuni dibattimenti non sarebbero stati graditi a Dio. Insetti, sporcizia, dolore. L'inadeguatezza di tutto. Perfino con lo spazio e il tempo non aveva fatto un lavoro per bene. Se lo si fosse citato in giudizio, pensava proprio che avrebbe avuto un paio di cosette da dirgli.

We use our eyes to look into space and our imaginations to look into time.

Desire exists in you as in everything. Realize that it also resides in objects and in all that the mind can grasp. Then, in discovering the universality of desire, enter its radiant space.

one man used a portable forge to heat rivets to the glowing point, pulled each one from the fire with tongs and threw it across open space to a crewmember who would catch the burning metal in a can.

The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do.

We've known for some time that the peace conferences have become a meeting space for Al-Qaeda operatives and European extremists of both the left-wing and right-wing variety. – Ari Shamron

For most of us, space is the concrete thing that time is like.3 Studies reveal that people all over the world imagine time as though it were a spatial dimension, which is why we say that the past is behind us and the future is in front of us, that we are moving toward our senescence and looking back on our infancy, and that days pass

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

Contour, negative space, and measurements. You just learned the three important lessons in drawing and saved yourself four years of art school.

The hardest part about doing Spaceballs (1987) was not laughing when they said "action".

Outer space is everything.

With his marine clocks, John Harrison tested the waters of space-time. He succeeded, against all odds, in using the fourth—temporal—dimension to link points on the three-dimensional globe. He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved.

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.