Quotes About Space

Atlas gazed out, as he always did, into infinite space, wishing he could be part of it, even for one hour.

Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space. There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm.

In the sky, Planet Moon is 239,000 miles away. That's not far when you remember that the sun is 93 million miles away.

the imprint of another life, and although you can never have that life, your fingers trace the space where it might have been, and your fingers learn a kind of braille.

God Forgive Me,' I say, and feel pity for a Deity that must concern Himself with pots of preserve. Had I lordship of the Universe I should roll men lke marbles in the pan of space and never ask where they stopped or fell.

I could gamble on another night, reduce myself a little more, but after the tenth night would come the eleventh and the twelfth and so on into the silent space that is the pain of never having enough.

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: It shines like a little diamond, What does? This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.

Giacometti knows that space is a cancer on being, and eats everything; to sculpt, for him, is to take the fat off space, he compresses space, so as to drain off its exteriority.

I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like that.

I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.

No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it

As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space.

My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

It's really hard to get any work done in my apartment when my bed is also in my apartment.

I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.

There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is-to live, to work.

Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.

I'm interested in making works for museums in a way that make the space feel domestic, and I'm always thinking about how this work will be part of someone's daily life.

Starships are all work and no fun.