Quotes About Space

She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy. As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.

Calwyn stopped in her tracks, and her song faltered on her lips. For the space of a heartbeat she thought she must be dreaming; the steady chantment she'd been singing without pause since dawn jerked almost into silence.

I could so easily never have learned things that would stay with me now until I died: that I was complete as I was, with all my flaws and all my strengths. That I took up space in the world, and that I was entitled to that space.

I could so easily never have learned things that would stay with me now until I died; that I was complete as I was, with all my flaws and all my strenghts. That I took up space in the world, and that I was entitled to that space.

drove up to earth.

I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.

But the bathroom reached its current sybaritic levels only in the 1990s. Often, it's no longer the smallest room in the house. The average size of the American bathroom tripled between 1994 and 2004, and it's not uncommon to sacrifice a bedroom to make an extralarge bathroom.

On this piano, 'vibrations of extraneous origin' arise from different 'shocks,' 'noises,' 'rustlings,' and for the most part from what are called 'aerial momentum vibrations,' which are generally formed in atmospheric space from the natural vibrations already present there.

One third of our life is spent in sleep. It is consolation for the troubles of our waking hours or atonement for their pleasures; but I have never experienced sleep to be mere repose. After a few minutes lethargy, a new life begins, untrammeled by the limitations of time and space, and undoubtedly similar to that which awaits us after death...

We live in that grave, in those clothes, in the pressure between nothing and everything, we live by perpetual movement from place to place but we want oh we so much want to escape to say it all to come home at last to the right place our rightful place our rightful space. As if that was possible.

When awareness is grounded, we become aware of what is going on in our bodies in the space between our heads and our feet.

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.

The store is fifteen Mayas wide and twenty Mayas long. She knows this because she once spent an afternoon measuring it by lying her body across the room. It is fortunate that it is not more than thirty Mayas long because that is as far as she could count on the day the measurements were taken.

The store is seven Mayas wide and twelve Mayas long. She knows this because she once spent an afternoon measuring it by lying her body across the room. It is fortunate that it is not more than twenty Mayas long because that is as far as she could count on the day the measurements were taken.

All of this seems as though it were yesterday, or forever ago, in that crevasse between space and time that stays fixed in the imagination. I remember it all because I remember it all. In crisis with someone you love, the dialogue is as burnished as a scar on a tree.

Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance does us part--time and space and the heart's weariness are the blander executioners of human connection.

Alice looked at the sky and sniffed at the heavens. Night seemed to swallow her. It was true, then, her ancient, girlish understanding. Grief is like space walking. It is nothing terrestrial. Laws of gravity alter, and bodies tilt and float away.

A good ritual facilitates, first and foremost, not only engagement with the Holy but the receptivity and vulnerability of head and heart space that makes that possible.

Doug Swieteck,' Mr. Ferris said, 'do you know the basic principle of physical science?' A trick? 'No,' I said, sort of slow. 'The basic principle of physical science is this: no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. Do you understand that?' 'I think so,' I said. 'Do you understand what the principle means?' I shook my head. 'It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.

all energy—that it extends into space at the

I've learned that we must first create a space of time, quiet, and isolation before we can truly see God. Three elements are necessary for this. We need to first believe, then learn to perceive, and finally receive.

Quantum computers that would boggle your mind, space elevators that raise heavy cargo through the air and into orbit, tourist trips to the moon, teleportation—all of these things will happen in the not-too-distant future.

The space we love is unwilling to remain permanently enclosed. It deploys and appears to move elsewhere without difficulty; into other times, and on different planes of dream and memory.