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Quotes About Space

My ancestors kept on breaking their necks searching the ground at their feet for buried treasure, and I too had found what I had sought for so long by gazing above my head and discovering my brothers from outer space who had restored my calm. Why should I be expected, alone among all my fathers and grandfathers, as I sat there on that stake, to submit my fate to the laws of nature and the rules of logic?
~ Emile Habiby
a kind of breathing space in a Paris that was too small, too stuffy for the ambition in their breasts (65)
~ Émile Zola
Ima prostora i za vas i za vaš ponos, mislim ovdje, u ku?i. Soba je prazna; možete je imati svu za sebe i za ?avla koji se uvijek na?e u takvom lošem društvu!
~ Emily Bronte
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
Non è necessario essere una stanza o una casa per essere stregata. Il cervello ha corridoi che vanno oltre gli spazi materiali.
~ Emily Dickinson
Hmm? No, it's a photo of all these streets. The camera's way up in space." "Outer Space?" "Yeah." "Cool." Officer Oh's voice gets all excited. "Three four nine Washington, shed in the rear, lit skylight . . . Got to be.
~ Emma Donoghue
Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged beauty in a dark alley They spat in the eye of beauty and bludgeoned their wait through the notions of aesthetics and aerodynamics. Vogon cruisers did not so much travel through space as defile it and toss it aside.
~ Eoin Colfer
One loose rivet or cracked weld line would have been enough to allow a few atmospheres to squirt out, and the ship would have been crushed like a soda can in the hand of a giant who was immensely strong and didn't like soda cans.
~ Eoin Colfer
Guide Note: Technically, there were no aliens on the ship, just space travellers. As soon as the 'alien's' identity is revealed we can abandon that classification.
~ Eoin Colfer
The only other Earthling left alive was Tricia McMillan, or Trillian to use her cool, spacey name, a fiercely ambitious astrophysicist cum fledgling reporter who had always believed that there was more to life than life on Earth.
~ Eoin Colfer
Wowbagger could not hold her eyes. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
~ Eoin Colfer
Soon the entire nebula was little more than a shawl of cosmic gauze thrown over a network of stars.
~ Eoin Colfer
One response to the loss of love, of the beloved, is an understanding of the illusory nature of partings, of the way love can transcend time and space
~ Amanda Haight
Forty-two: On your first mission into space, you recall your mother's umbilical cord being cut from you. Your high heels floating down the river, all the way into the Atlantic Ocean.
~ Amber Tamblyn
Satellites are not just getting better; they are getting more plentiful. According to then Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, the number of satellite launches more than doubled between 2016 and 2018.44 In 2018 alone, 322 small satellites about the size of a shoebox were hurled into space. The Paris-based firm Euroconsult estimates that more than eight thousand small satellites will be launched between 2019 and 2028.
~ Amy B. Zegart
Before my dad died I saw the world as a place. By "place" I mean space. Fixed. Space did not move, but people moved in space. People and space could touch each other, but not very deeply. After he died, I saw that people and space are permeable to each other in a way that people and people are not. I saw that space is like water. People can go inside it.
~ Amy Fusselman
He waits. "And I think that is what I would like love to be. Leaving room for each other, knowing that not every step is going to be side by side. Giving more than taking. Waiting. Trusting,
~ Amy Garvey
he and Noah competing for space like electrons in an unstable gas.
~ Amy Lane
He'd forgotten how big the place was, and he was so busy looking around, he misjudged the placement of the doorframe and hit himself painfully as he walked through.
~ Amy Lane
I would follow you to the edge of the galaxy just to watch you make a 720 off the Crab Nebula.
~ Amy Lane
Create multi-levels in your home. Leave half a shelf empty, so Kitty has a place to perch and claim her place.
~ Amy Shojai
When the Evangelists mention a date and a place, they are telling us to pay attention, for time and space hold a surfeit of meaning.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
I shall never forget the peace of his hermitage amidst the eternal snows and the lesson he taught me: that we cannot face the Great Void before we have the strength and greatness to fill it with our entire being. Then the Void is not the negation merely of our limited personality, but the Plenum-Void which includes, embraces and nourishes it, like the womb of space in which the light moves eternally without ever being lost.
~ Anagarika Govinda
Doveva essere nato allora il suo odio per i materiali e le forme innaturali, le gabbie architettoniche degli elementi. Secondo lui l'origine di quasi tutto l'orrore del mondo era nella civiltà industriale, che aveva brutalizzato lo spazio e distrutto i ritmi e gli equilibri complessi della vita per adattarli a quelli delle macchine.
~ Andrea De Carlo