Quotes About Space

Space I can recover. Time, never.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

I'm sorry I don't have brilliant reasons for beginning a novel. As you go along, you make up reasons to do what you want. There's an open space. Enter it.

Writing is 100% listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you write, it pours out of you. if you can capture that reality around you, your writing needs nothing else.

the back of every word we write is no word. Only because no word exists is there space enough to write some word. So when we write about our feelings and perceptions, it is writing practice when we also touch the place where there are no feelings, no perceptions, there is no you, no person doing any writing. In other words you disappear, you become one with your words, not separate, and when you put your pen down, the you who was writing is gone.

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

Nuoriso on lystikästä, kaikki haluavat työskennellä avaruuden parissa, mutta kuka sitten hoitaa maanpäällisen elämämme?

They were slowing down. The noise of the rope as they reached the full extent of the jump sounded like the ricochet crack of the sail on a tall ship. And now they were accelerating again, up, up and suddenly they were hanging suspended: weightless in space. No up or down. The feeling of disorientation absolute.

I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

There would never be room for an onigiri in a fruits basket.

Cormac studied one of the portraits, vaguely identifying it as of some very early premillennial cosmonaut

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

Houston, uh, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Liftoff! We have a liftoff...

One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.