Satellites Quotes

• We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Law, Theory Of Evolution

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Last night I fell asleep in a satellite dish. My dreams were broadcast all over the world.

  Steven Wright

  Dream, Night, World

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• Let's get my incantation right:
  "I wish I may, I wish I might"
  Give earth another satellite.

  Robert Frost

  Giving, Poetry, Wish

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• A satellite has no conscience.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Science, Conscience

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• The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

  Neil Young

  Creating, Rockets, Spaceships

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• A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Communication, Years, America

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• The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.

  Marc Garneau

  Communication, Space, Ties

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• Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Communication, Space, Industry

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• Vickie is so fat that her baby pictures were taken via satellite.

  John Cena

  Baby, Taken, Wwe

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• Alternative spaces, independent media, satellite, these all provide some tools by which we can work more independently and deal more directly with communities we hope to reach. Distribution is key, and finding alternative ways to do that with new media is critical.

  Chuck D

  Independent, Space, Keys

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Moon, Space

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• In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite.

  David Coleman

  Inspirational, Funny, Vaults

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• On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Friday, Communication, Bad Ass

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.261, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

  Christa McAuliffe

  School, Eyebrows, Space

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• Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

  Mo Rocca

  Book, Ipods, Media

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• Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn’t matter how many satellites you f---ing stick in the air.

  Howard Stern

  Air, World, Matter

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• Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Mean, Phones, Cells

  "Is Obama the Most Famous Living Person Ever?" by Dee Dee Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2009.

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• We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.

  David Bottoms

  Running, New Year, Stars

  David Bottoms (1980). “Shooting rats at the Bibb County Dump”, William Morrow &Company

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• I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite dish. You'd see them huddling around and for the first time seeing issues being debated on TV that had never been talked about before. And that is the biggest promoter of democracy you could possibly have.

  Jehane Noujaim

  Issues, People, Volunteer

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• During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

  David Bohm

  Travel, Communication, Past

  David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2004). “On Dialogue”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or he can deliberately accept his servitude. All three forms flourish in the modern world. Men are born and forced into slavery in Russia and her satellites states. Men in the free world invite slavery when they ask the government to provide complete security, when they surrender their freedom to the "Welfare State."

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Men, Russia

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• Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

  Sally Ride

  Hands, Space, Orbit

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• Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Opportunity, Directors, Actors

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• We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

  Dan Quayle

  Storm, Rising, Politics

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• Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Real, Thinking, Keys

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