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Quotes About Space

Fozzetto was sheathed in an ebony jumpsuit with a weightlifter cut in the front. Bands of holographic foil twined around his thighs and wound down to the tops of his silver space boots. He teetered on at least six inches of platform heel; maybe Kiss had had a garage sale.
~ Chet Williamson
A day on Jupiter's moon lasts less than five hours — just like Saturday and Sunday on Earth.
~ Internet meme
The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
~ Edward Abbey
How bright and beautiful a comet is as it flies past our planet — provided it does fly past it.
~ Isaac Asimov
There is a place above, where Scorpio bent, In tail and arms surrounds a vast extent; In a wide circuit of the heavens he shines, And fills the place of two celestial signs.
~ Ovid (43 BCE–17 CE)
There is a solitude of space, A solitude of sea, A solitude of death, but these Society shall be, Compared with that profounder site, That polar privacy, A Soul admitted to Itself: Finite Infinity.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1855
I enjoy going for brunch at Granger & Co. in Notting Hill and having my all-time favourite: poached eggs and avocado on toast. I love the aesthetic of the space and the fresh, modern approach in the dishes.
~ Emilia Wickstead
I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.
~ Mike Mills
However great an economic theory ma be, it is specific to its time and space. To apply it fruitfully, we require a good knowledge of the technological and institutional forces that characterize the particular markets, industries and countries that we are trying to analyze with the help of the theory.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
after all, in 1957 the Soviet Union put the first ever man in space)
~ Ha-Joon Chang
The coma carried me into a world where time and space seemed to vanish; it was a dreamlike existence in which people, places, and situations shifted as quickly as thoughts. I had a profound sense of being at a crossroads, a turning point, somewhere between death and life...
~ Hal Zina Bennett
Light produces space, distance, orientation, calm contemplation; it is the gift that makes no demands, the illumination capable of conquering without force.
~ Hans Blumenberg
It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.
~ Hans Reichenbach
The canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act—rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze, or "express" an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
~ Harold Rosenberg
As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
~ Harry von Zell
We flew gracefully between the complicated lattice of trusses like a pair of nymphs. Add our sexy outfits and transparent metallite alloy spacesuits to our naturally good looks, and you can see what I mean, can't you? I was swept with an overwhelming confidence in how beautiful I must look. That's it! It wasn't that we felt things were going too easily. The fact was, we were frustrated that there wasn't anyone around to admire us.
~ Haruka Takachiho
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. —Neil Armstrong
~ Laurie B. Friedman
When it comes to accessing intuitive information, it is not so much about certain things we need to do, but rather it is about making space--getting out of the way--so a higher power can connect with us.
~ Laurie E. Smith
I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.
~ Lawrence Block
We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.
~ Lawrence Durrell
viewing strategy as "the art of making use of time and space";
~ Lawrence Freedman
A house is a machine for living in.
~ Le Corbusier
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
~ Le Corbusier
Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.
~ le guin ursula k iii