Spaceships Quotes - Page 2

• It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wine, Orange, Bird

  Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess (1972). “A clockwork orange”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut in to his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. " 'All the doors in his spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.' " As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sighlike quality to it. "Hummmmmmmyummmmmmmah!" it said.

  Douglas Adams

  Jobs, Cutting, Doors

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.67, Pan Macmillan

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• The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.

  David Brin

  Children, Mistake, Parent

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• The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth.

  Petra Kelly

  Determination, Mean, Self

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• There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.

  Farah Diba

  Mars, Nasa, Iranian

  Interview with Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 8, 2014.

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• Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Four, Boards, Earth

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• Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

  David Duchovny

  Answers, Aliens, Journalist

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• I definitely knew how to fly. That's something you don't forget. One spaceship is pretty much like another when it comes to flying.

  Alan Tudyk

  Flying, Forget

  "Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion on Reviving ‘Firefly’ Memories for ‘Con Man,’ Setting Vimeo Records And Season 2 Plans". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. October 6, 2015.

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• This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.

  Robert Crippen

  Airplane, Aviation, Performing

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• The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.

  Reginald Ray

  Stars, Reality, Fire

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• There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not to combine the two things.

  Joss Whedon

  Smart, Two, Trouble

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• I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my "spaceship" and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

  Warren Mitchell

  Beauty, Choices, Healthy

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• When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

  Yuri Gagarin

  Beautiful, Space, Earth

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• Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

  Andrew Young

  Hands, Land, Cards

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• Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.

  Douglas Adams

  Missing, Tea, Important

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.... Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Eight, Years, Two

  "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

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• Imagine what I could have done in ten years. I could have learned to speak Japanese. I could have played every RPG video game ever created, and if I spoke Japanese I could have played the foreign ones too! Man, I could have built a spaceship in my backyard and flew it to the moon and back, if I wanted.

  Kevin James

  Moon, Men, Years

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• When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo - and just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live and work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.

  Jim Lovell

  Moon, Outlook On Life, Imagination

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• I have a strong feeling about interesting people in space exploration. . . . And the only way it's going to happen is to have some kid fantasize about getting his ray gun, jumping into his spaceship, and flying into outer space.

  George Lucas

  Strong, Kids, Gun

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• It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.

  Poul Anderson

  War, Technology, Names

  Poul Anderson (2011). “Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Memories, Home, Average

  "Commentary: Let's aim for Mars". www.cnn.com. June 23, 2009.

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• Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Motivational, Wisdom, Book

  Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth ch. 4 (1969)

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• Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

  Adam Savage

  Light, Magic, Details

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• For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Moon, Years

  "The Prospect for Humanity," Saturday Review, 29 Aug. 1964

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• We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.... We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Peace, Fate, Ubuntu

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