Orbit Quotes - Page 5

• If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around earth-give me a place to go and I'll go.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Block, Tired, Space

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• Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot.

  Robert G. Allen

  Goal, Creative, Pilots

  Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Latin, Order, Names

  "Encyclopedia of World Biography" edited by Thomson Gale, 1997.

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• FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Liars, Lying, Cutting

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.80, University of Georgia Press

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• A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know his name. Only then is he fit for a woman, for only then does he have something to invite her into.

  John Eldredge

  Men, Names, Doe

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant within the orbit of reason, and to fill with reverence for divinity the godless and the ungodly.

  Richard Hakluyt

  History, Ignorant, Divinity

  Richard Hakluyt (1935). “The Original Writings & Correspondence of the Two Richard Hakluyts”

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• I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel.
  Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away.
  A Light came and kindled a Flame in the depth of my Soul.
  A Light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly.

  Rumi

  Wine, Butterfly, Light

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• At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise; as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Health, Simple, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be pushed below $25,000. That's what tens of thousands of people spend each year on competing trips, such as round-the-world cruises on luxury liners and adventure tours to Antarctica or Mount Everest.

  G. Harry Stine

  Future, Adventure, Years

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• We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits.

  Richard Branson

  Future, Moon, Limits

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• The next 15 years will see thousands of people leave the atmosphere on suborbital flights. My company's SS2 system might fly 100,000 people by 2024. If it is shown to be highly profitable, perhaps we will see 20,000 people traveling to orbit by 2035, and then thousands to the moon by 2050. If we make a courageous decision, like the program we kicked off for Apollo, we will see our grandchildren in outposts on other planets.

  Burt Rutan

  Future, Grandchildren, Moon

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• America was good enough to make a small compact lighter weight nuclear weapon. The Russians still had these big clunky heavy ones, so they had to build the big boosters in the arm's war, so now all of the sudden Russia could take off the shelf and put into orbit much heavier things than we could, so that's why they had the original leadership.

  Burt Rutan

  War, Russia, America

  Source: bigthink.com

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• By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the Moon into deep space. So we'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. By the mid-2030s I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow and I expect to be around in see it.

  Barack Obama

  Future, Believe, Journey

  "What's In The Stars For NASA?". "Science Friday", www.npr.org. April 16, 2010.

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• No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable.

  Burt Rutan

  Order, Magnitude, Affordable

  Source: bigthink.com

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• . . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stars, Journey, Men

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• The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner than America because America was very good at something else.

  Burt Rutan

  Men, America, Space

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.

  Austin O'Malley

  Moving, Men, Earth

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• For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

  Philip Roth

  Discipline, Oneself

  Philip Roth (2007). “Exit Ghost”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Stars, Hands, Voice

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Introduction, 1835.

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• Long ago when a child lay in a manger, a special star appeared. It didn't just show up that evening. It had to have been placed in its orbit centuries before in a trajectory that would make it appear at that special moment of time to announce the birth of a special child. Just as there is divine design in the universe, so each of us has been placed in our own orbits in this life to love, to serve, to help light the world.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Christmas, Stars, Children

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• We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.

  Kingsley Amis

  Demand, Enough, Should

  "What Became of Jane Austen? And Other Questions". Book by Kingsley Amis ("Phoenix Too Frequent" Critique of D. H. Lawrence), 1970.

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• Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

  Bill Gates

  Microsoft, Rockets, Computer

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• Like a satellite in orbit, Apple is perpetually falling. It just happens to miss Earth every time.

  Horace Dediu

  Fall, Apples, Missing

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• Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.

  Susan Sontag

  Beautiful, Training, Records

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• I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Stories, World, Honestly

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