Galaxy Quotes - Page 8

• Early in my career I discovered that there was something really special about photographing at night that places your mind on the surface of the planet. You’re no longer just a human being walking around in the regular world. You’re a human animal striding around on the surface of the planet that’s out in the middle of the galaxy. We as a culture, we’re forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very deep connection and contact with nature. You can’t divorce civilization from nature. We totally depend on it.

  James Balog

  Divorce, Night, Animal

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• Does the sun ask itself, "Am I good? Am I worthwhile? Is there enough of me?" No, it burns and it shines. Does the sun ask itself, "What does the moon think of me? How does Mars feel about me today?" No it burns, it shines. Does the sun ask itself, "Am I as big as other suns in other galaxies?" No, it burns, it shines.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Moon, Thinking, Shining

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• The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

  Luke Davies

  Adrift, Myth, Concepts

  Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.7, Penguin

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• There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Body, Glory

  "Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.

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• I emerged from the black oil pools in the forgotten house of dreams in the wild backcountry of the heart. I am heir to the sun, child of Mother Earth and the Mayan galaxy. All the mountain cures and healing waters and winds and junipers run deep in my bloodstream.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Mother, Running, Dream

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• The galaxy is full of creatures that are nothing like us at all. We can try to understand them, and we should. But even if we accept that they’re doing what comes naturally, one is not beholden to comply when the sarlacc asks for dinner.

  John Jackson Miller

  Trying, Dinner, Accepting

  John Jackson Miller (2013). “Kenobi: Star Wars Legends”, p.158, Del Rey

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• In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change in the properties of populations of organisms that transcend the lifetime of a single individual.

  Douglas J. Futuyma

  Political, Population, Evolution

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• A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of million light years from end to end. As it closed up [...] Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it...materializing in a large woobly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Light, Years

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• I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Stars, Mean

  "The Sandman: Brief Lives". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1994.

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• God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

  Douglas Adams

  God, Finals, Messages

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• Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy.

  Katherine Applegate

  Mcdonalds, Earth, Next

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• The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as it was tens of thousands of years before the back. But typical events in galactic dynamics occupy tens of millions of years, so the error in thinking of an image of a galaxy as frozen in one moment of time is small.

  Carl Sagan

  Thinking, Errors, Light

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.293, Ballantine Books

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• I'm not a huge comic book fan, but I'm a closet fan of certain Marvel heroes, two of those being Iron Man, and the other being Guardians of the Galaxy, which I'm looking forward to.

  Kevin Feige

  Book, Hero, Men

  Source: screenrant.com

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• It is unlikely that we will ever see a star being born. Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young, but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event. Stars are born inside thick clouds of dust and gas in the spiral arms of the galaxy, so thick that visible light cannot penetrate them.

  Heinz Pagels

  Stars, Science, Animal

  Heinz R. Pagels (1985). “Perfect symmetry: the search for the beginning of time”, Simon & Schuster

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• In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Men, Challenges

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• God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  World, Our Love, God Love

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• If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 4km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. Now shrink Pluto's orbit into a coffee cup; then our Milky Way Galaxy fills North America.

  Wayne Hays

  New York, Stars, Coffee

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• Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Artist, Swings

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts, (p. 92), 1966.

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• More and more people are watching entertainment on their phones. On a plane or on a train, or whatever, you see people with their headphones and they're looking at their iPhone or their Galaxy. You're reducing a medium that's meant to be seen on your 65-inch plasma screen at home for your 4-inch monitor on the train. People are ready to do either, and the content has to work on both.

  Adrian Pasdar

  Home, Iphone, Phones

  Source: collider.com

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• Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stars, Rain, Positive Thinking

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Everyday Immortality”, p.75, Random House

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• There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something to ponder as you watch the famous cantina scene in Star Wars. ... Does this make sense, given the overwhelmingly likely situation that galactic civilizations differ in their level of evolutionary development by thousands or millions of years? Would you share drinks with a trilobite, an ourang-outang, or a saber-toothed tiger? Or would you just arrange to have a few specimens stuffed and carted off to the local museum?

  Seth Shostak

  Stars, War, Science

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• For many years I have been a night watchman of the Milky Way galaxy.

  Bart Bok

  Night, Years, Way

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• How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself as anything less than a god?  And, when you consider that this incalculably subtle organism is inseparable from the still more marvelous patterns of its environment - from the minutest electrical designs to the whole company of the galaxies - how is it conceivable that this incarnation of all eternity can be bored with being?

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Eye, Jewels

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• Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.

  Robert Sheckley

  War, House, Lines

  Robert Sheckley (2014). “Dimension of Miracles”, p.59, Open Road Media

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• there is a world, in a far-flung corner of our galaxy, where women have no nipples and motor cars, though legally capable of 70 mph never trundle a smidgen over thirty. A world where alcohol never makes people drunk and is only ever consumed in moderation by responsible adults who appear to be at least 25 years old!

  Trevor Beattie

  Mph, Years, Car

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