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Quotes About Space

Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.
~ Etta James
When you lower the cost of access to space, a boom of innovation follows, just as low-cost fiber optics paved the way for the Internet and the cloud services that followed.
~ Steve Jurvetson
When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.
~ Keeley Hawes
The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
When you look at the Earth's horizon and see the thickness of the atmosphere, it's not even the thickness of an orange peel.
~ Gregory H. Johnson
Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.
~ Mae Jemison
All the particles that we are made of only account for about four per cent of the cosmic inventory.
~ Priyamvada Natarajan
I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts.
~ Marvin Hamlisch
Light is something that can really change your perception of space.
~ Alexandre de Betak
I don't want you looking at the light fixture; I want you looking at where light goes. But more than that, I'm interested in the effect of light upon you and your perceptions.
~ James Turrell
I'm a performer, so when I get to any space, I make it my own for that moment and have fun.
~ Big Freedia
Performing tai chi in space - it is comfortable; we got more outer space chi.
~ Liu Yang
The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
~ Walter Cronkite
Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.
~ Edward Hall
What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.
~ Sydney Pollack
I would just ask you for one moment to imagine what today would be like if we had built on that landing by creating a permanent and growing community there and moved on to Mars.
~ Rick Tumlinson
They talked business for half an hour. (Centuries passed beyond the hull.)
~ Poul Anderson
I must have first read The High Crusade in my early teens, and in memory, the book is fun, with the English villagers and nobles conquering the galaxy after they've taken over an alien space ship that landed in their village. The Baron, Sir Roger, merely intended to catch a quick ride to the wars in France, then go on to the Crusades in Jerusalem, but one thing led to another.
~ Poul Anderson
Thus, an index built for vector space retrieval cannot, in general, be used for phrase queries. Moreover, there is no way of demanding a vector space score for a phrase query—we only know the relative weights of each term in a document.
~ Prabhakar Raghavan
There is at least one advantage to being an Indonesian citizen: With this country's expanse of land and even greater expanse of sea, it's not difficult finding space for one's grave.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
it's a miracle gift, a token of love from outer space.
~ Preston Dennett
I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
~ Quentin Crisp
In this world's endless time and boundless space One may be born at last to match my sovereign grace.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Seu antagonismo tinha a medida exata da sua antiga harmonia, mas enquanto a harmonia havia sido atemporal, sem peso, o antagonismo ocupava espaço e tempo.
~ Rachel Cusk