Space Quotes

"Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space."

"I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life."

"If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans."

"We have one planet in our solar system that's habitable, and that's the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things."

"Wilderness trails constitute a rare space in America marked by economic diversity. Lawyers and construction workers get bitten by the same mosquitoes and sip from the same streams; there are none of the usual signals about socioeconomic status, for most hikers are in shorts and a T-shirt and enveloped by an aroma that would make a skunk queasy."

"The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth."

"The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity's attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it."

"The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."

"We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved."

"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."

"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is."

"My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling."

"I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.'"

"The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance."

"I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time."

"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains."

"I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system."

"Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them."

"So many times, when you're doing a job, you feel like you're a nuisance at times to people, intruding on their space when you ask them questions; maybe they don't want to deal with you at the time. And now, it's, 'Hey, welcome, where's Craig?' Whereas, now, it's kind of different."

"It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it's actually space that's moving."

"Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space."

"The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up."

"The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high."

"The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind."

"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

"Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market."

"Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval."

"When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space."

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

"Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world."

"Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time."

"Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe."

"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."

"A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel."

"I think being still and being silent and finding your own space is so important in this hectic world."

"Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing."

"I'm more of a lead by example, and then when I feel like it's needed I'll step in and talk to guys. But I like to give guys their space and let them figure it out for themselves."

"And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react."

"Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists."

"Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there."

"It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses."

"In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means 'becoming.' In this space of becoming, we are subtly leaning forward into the future, trying to have security based on feeling that we can hold on, we can try to keep things from changing."

"I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions."

"Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go."

"No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents."

"I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space."

"While on the space station, I kept up with news a couple of ways - Mission Control sent daily summaries, and I would scan headlines on Google News when we had an Internet connection, which was about half the time."

"On one of the SpaceX flights, we had a secret payload: a wheel of cheese. We flew to orbit and brought it back, so it was the world's first 'space cheese.' It was, in part, a tribute to Monty Python."

"Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood."

"Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea."