Space Quotes - Page 20

• The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural one to the British, and not one to be eradicated by changes of political or religious fashion. ... It was general custom in pagan Europe to decorate spaces with greenery and flowers for festivals, attested wherever records have survived.

  Ronald Hutton

  Christmas, Religious, Fashion

  Ronald Hutton (2001). “Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain”, p.71, OUP Oxford

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• I can't wait to design the performance. I want to make a moment that is about much more than me. Performing in space is such an honor. I want to challenge myself to come up with something that will not only bring everyone together but will also have a message of love that blasts into the beyond.

  Lady Gaga

  Design, Waiting, Challenges

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• Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more good than they do evil. Hell, we've had nuclear weapons now for thirty or thirty-five years and nothing's happened yet. That in itself seems to be a miracle. If Reagan pushes the button or somebody pushes the button in Russia or somebody pushes it in Costa Rica, they can put a big tombstone in outer space that says, "We gave it a good try." Because we have.

  Stephen King

  Tombstone, Years, Russia

  High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

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• As Joel Goldsmith said, in the presence of the God realized, the laws of the material world do not apply. That's why people who live steadfastly at a place of God-consciousness can perform miracles. They can create. They can make virtually anything happen. From the space in-between, that last inch is the critical inch you have to take to reach that place. Every once in a while, I get to that place of God-consciousness, and miracles do happen.

  Wayne Dyer

  Law, People, Miracle

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• There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Writing, People, Stories

  "Michael Ondaatje, Among Thieves". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2011.

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• When you look at Earth from that one picture, the one from space, it's really a rather attractive thing. I have nothing against the planet per se. I root for the big comet or asteroid as a way of cleansing the planet. The comet or asteroid 65 million years ago is probably what gave us our opening to replace the reptiles. The greatest entertainment I have in my life is chronicling internally, not necessarily for the public, the slow dissolution of order.

  George Carlin

  Attractive Things, Order, Years

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• I'd like to build myself a rocket ship and launch myself into space. Still waiting on the technological advances required for a DIY space flight.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Waiting, Diy, Rockets

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• I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream. So there is some compulsion involved. But the dividend I get is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.

  George Carlin

  Dream, Order, Environment

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• There's always going to be space for battle in hip hop. For competition. It's just an inseparable part of the game.

  Nas

  Games, Hip Hop, Competition

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.

  Nhat Hanh

  Self, Somewhere Else, Being Real

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who is alone and cut off from the world. So I have had to practice being willing to leave the space of my study to be in community, to work in community, and to be changed by community.

  Bell Hooks

  Cutting, Practice, Community

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face, I pretend that they're not there. But I actually like being on my own, I like being in the space.

  Stephen Dorff

  Faces, Cameras, Bigs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Moving, America, Bigs

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• I always felt like an outer-space alien. I was always breaking the fourth wall.

  RuPaul

  Wall, Aliens, Fourth

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence.

  Michael Card

  Silence, Encounters, Roles

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• It was hard to become an astronaut. Not anywhere near as much physical training as people imagine, but a lot of mental training, a lot of learning. You have to learn everything there is to know about the Space Shuttle and everything you are going to be doing, and everything you need to know if something goes wrong, and then once you have learned it all, you have to practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice until everything is second nature, so it's a very, very difficult training, and it takes years.

  Sally Ride

  Years, Practice, People

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• Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

  Orson Scott Card

  Dream, Hope, Ambition

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.246, Macmillan

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• I love the apparent quiet of reading a book. You sit there; you're not really moving. It looks very solitary. It looks very boring, but actually it's the most exciting place because it's going on for you, and you're in that relationship. In that sense, it's like being with a lover. Nobody else can intrude on that space. It's the two of you. It's your own world.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reading, Moving, Book

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• I have no doubt that humans will go to Mars. And I feel that America has led so many things in space - we have invested so much, and we have a lot to gain - that America could and should be the nation that should lead the settlement of Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  America, Doubt, Gains

  "Buzz Aldrin's mission to Mars". Interview with Jeremy Wilks, www.euronews.com. February 7, 2013.

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• The feeling of reduced gravity and the limitations of the space suit resulted in a slow-motion movement. Perhaps not too far from a trampoline, but without the springiness and instability.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Feelings, Movement, Slow Motion

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem - just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.

  Adrienne Rich

  Thinking, Bridges, Long

  Source: criticalflame.org

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• There are so many wonders awaiting us. If we can upload memories, then we might be able to combat Alzheimers, as well as create a brain-net of memories and emotions to replace the internet, which would revolutionize entertainment, the economy, and our way of life. Maybe even to help us live forever, and send consciousness into outer space.

  Michio Kaku

  Memories, Forever, Brain

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• An event horizon, or the point of no return, is only a byproduct of the bending of space. However, electricity and magnetism, by themselves, have no event horizon. It gets complicated, however, if a black hole has charge, and then this new solution does have an event horizon.

  Michio Kaku

  Black, Events, Doe

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• I think a colony in space will take much longer than sci fiction writers think. It costs $10,000 to put a pound of anything into near earth orbit. That is your weight in gold. It costs about $100,000 a pound to put you on the moon. And it costs $1,000,000 a pound to put you on Mars.

  Michio Kaku

  Thinking, Moon, Gold

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• As nice as some of the booths are, it's not the same thing. It's a pity for young artists, because one of the things that a younger artist can look forward to is an emerging dealer who has a space that they can take over and build whatever will suit whatever aesthetic they find themselves in. In an art fair, you turn yourself into an object.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Art, Nice, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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