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Quotes About Space

Chet looked like a big-eyed, potbellied, protohuman in fur-lined, duct-tape space boots - the feline love child of Gollum and Dobby the house-elf.
~ Christopher Moore
Rooms that are bigger on the inside than the outside.…
~ Christopher Paolini
collection of black and red flesh floating in space, raw, skinless, glossy with oozing fluids.
~ Christopher Paolini
I crawled through space and time, a worm inching through a labyrinth built by the dreams of a mad god. This I learned, meatbag, this and nothing more: when air, food, and shelter are assured, only two things matter. Work and companionship. To be alone and without purpose is to be the living dead.
~ Christopher Paolini
Someday, he said, when I'm old and rich, I'll have my own spaceship. Just you wait.
~ Christopher Paolini
Gregorovich, what's happening on the station? Kira asked. Chaos and pain, the shipmind replied.
~ Christopher Paolini
There were, she thought, many different types of nightmares in the galaxy.
~ Christopher Paolini
Lense–Thirring effect, aka: frame-dragging).
~ Christopher Paolini
Confession is good for the soul, it empties the soul making more space for sin.
~ Trevanian
No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the solar system.
~ Trevor Paglen
El espacio de la conjetura es un espacio rizomático. El
~ Umberto Eco
There's nothing worse than illustrating a chapter on space travel with a photograph of the latest American satellite. Signor Garamond had taught me that it needs, at the very least, an angel by Dore.
~ Umberto Eco
Very few towns, and rivers mostly dry beds; a land of which vast tracts were kept for grazing by wealthy owners who didn't want settlers and money so much as they wanted space and fresh air. Only a land-values tax could have reached them, and there could be no such tax because they owned the newspapers and controlled both political machines
~ Upton Sinclair
Sophie; there was space
~ Val McDermid
Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.
~ Velimir Khlebnikov
Inventar consiste en hacer que las cosas que se hallan paralelas en el espacio se encuentren en el tiempo o viceversa, y que al unirse muestren un hecho nuevo.
~ Vicente Huidobro
Listen, Monsieur Director, here's what I think. Obviously this is wrong. There are twenty-six of you in five or six small rooms; there are three of us in space enough for sixty. That is wrong, I assure you. You have my house and I am in yours. Give me back mine and this will be your home.
~ Victor Hugo
The pain of him leaving kept expanding inside of her, taking up more and more space.
~ Kristin Hannah
The truth of my circumstance climbs into the bed with me and takes up too much room.
~ Kristin Hannah
It wasn't quite the death of hope—part of her still hoped that Coop was alive somewhere. It was more like the application of hope. She wanted to make sure that no one else—child, adult, crew member, captain—would ever lose a loved one to foldspace again. It was probably a vain hope. But it would keep her going, for at least another forty years.
~ Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Some old spacers stay away from wrecks. These old-timers believe the wrecks are haunted—not by the dead crew, but by old science, the kind that could kill us because we don't understand it.
~ Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. (Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule)
~ L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
By the way'[Gabriel] said,' everyone else had better keep out of here. After you spend so much time in lockup, you get to like your space. You get kind of territorial. I wouldn't want anybody to get hurt.' ... Gabriel gave [Kaitlyn] a long, measuring look. Then he flashed a brilliant, unsettling smile. 'You can come in any time you like
~ L.J. Smith
It might be better if we didn't see each other for a while.
~ L.J. Smith