Space Quotes - Page 10

• Sometimes the best way to uncover a new goal or dream is to step back, make space, and allow what's next to find you.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Dream, Goal, Way

  FaceBook post by Cheryl Richardson from Apr 10, 2012

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• The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.

  Jim Lovell

  Stars, Real, Friendly

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• Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you by telephone from the Oval Office at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made. . . . Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. As you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to Earth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Moon, Men, Talking

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• For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue light-our atmosphere. Obviously this was not the ocean of air I had been told it was so many times in my life. I was terrified by its fragile appearance.

  Ulf Merbold

  Ocean, Dark, Light

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• I always knew I was going to die in space.

  Adam Brody

  Dies

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• Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Music, Frozen, Architecture

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• Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Light, Air, Grows

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• Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

  Edward Abbey

  Flower, Light, Rocks

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, University of Arizona Press

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• When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried

  Alan Shepard

  Moon, Earth, Firsts

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• I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the Earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape - it makes us realize that we all do exist on one small globe. For from 230,000 miles away, it really is a small planet.

  Frank Borman

  Distance, Thinking, Earth

  "And You Think You've Got Problems!" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2016.

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• Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sublime, Littles, Misery

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• A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

  Gaston Bachelard

  House, Boxes, Has Beens

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.55, Penguin

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• There's a fundamental difference, if you sort of look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars...compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.

  Elon Musk

  Stars, Differences, Forever

  "The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast

  Jeri Ryan

  Thinking, Arrogant, Might

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• My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.

  Jasper Johns

  Differences, Different, Vivid

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• The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Squares, Air

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.138, New Riders

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• For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Framed

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.63, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The beauty of progress is that it makes it easier for you to carve out a space to be nonproductive.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Progress, Easier

  Greg Gutfeld (2014). “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You”, p.86, Crown Forum

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• I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

  Anish Kapoor

  Jobs, Thinking, Form

  "Anish Kapoor: in Conversation with John Tusa". Interview with John Tusa, anishkapoor.com.

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• But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?

  Dar Williams

  Come Up, Notion

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• Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It's the sense I have that some of those points of light are the home stars of beings not so different from us, daily cares and all, who look across space with wonder, just as we do.

  Frank Drake

  Stars, Lying, Home

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• The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.

  Jean Paul

  Stars, Heart, Heaven

  Jean Paul (1862). “Titan: A Romance”, p.473

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• The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult as it is for a man to conceive what a first cause is, he arrives at the belief of it, from the tenfold greater difficulty of disbelieving it. It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Names, Ideas

  Thomas Paine (1794). “Paine's Age of Reason, with Remarks, Containing a Vindication of the Doctrines of Christianity from the Aspersions of that Author. By a Citizen of the World [i.e. James Tytler]”, p.73

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• I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Intelligent, Astronomy

  IRC discussion with Gentry Lee at Sci Fi Channel, November 1, 1996.

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• Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.

  Randall Munroe

  Japan, Sea, Sri Lanka

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