Space Quotes - Page 24

• Europe is not one of the major powers. And Africa even less so of course. But Africa has what Europe lacks: space, human resources, and natural resources while Europe has the technological innovation that Africa lacks. Together we can become a power which can count in the future.

  Abdoulaye Wade

  Europe, Together We Can, Innovation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• In racing there are always things you can learn, every single day. There is always space for improvement, and I think that applies to everything in life.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Thinking, Racing, Improvement

  128 Copy quote

• What you want is a comfortable environment that you feel you can invent in. Because film is such a lumbering, technical, huge, great Neanderthal thing, it's hard to create that little space of peace, and calm, and creativity, and ease. That's what you want the director to create for you, so that when you walk on the set, you forget all of that, and the fact that it's costing gazillions of dollars a second.

  Helen Mirren

  Creativity, Directors, Neanderthals

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.

  Alan Stern

  Opportunity, People, Done

  "Planets Deserve Better Names". Interview with Stephen P. Craft, www.slate.com. February 23, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The color and spectacle of Mexico's streets sparked my interest in community driven space and experience, a passion that I began to develop while studying architecture at Syracuse University and then at the Architectural Association School in London. Having been immersed in such a diverse array of lively environments, it would be impossible for me not to use these memories and experiences as inspiration for my work.

  David Rockwell

  Memories, Inspiration, Passion

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences.

  David Rockwell

  Design, Environment, Invites

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own seal upon yourself. If you do this as you sit in ecstatic meditation, the whole universe itself scattered through the infinity of space turns into enlightenment. This is what I mean by the Buddha's seal.

  Dogen

  Mean, Meditation, Mind

  15 Copy quote

• Healing happens between the notes. I had to allow the space and not be afraid, and to know that things happen in space. You have to let the space settle. If you let go, you transcend and experience the stillness, and that is the healing. One ingredient of health is rest. Activity comes from inactivity. The basis of sound is silence. Stillness is basic to health.

  Paul Horn

  Letting Go, Healing, Silence

  6 Copy quote

• Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space call it brain or heart of creation activates every function, who is the artist who would not dwell there?

  Paul Klee

  Heart, Artist, Secret Places

  Paul Klee, Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Richard Verdi (1991). “Paul Klee: dialogue with nature”, Prestel Pub

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations to a variety of physical theories. In contrast, the only elements in the construction of black holes are our basic concepts of space and time. They are, thus, almost by definition, the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Perfect, Black, Elements

  23 Copy quote

• Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in numbers except our own wish. Since I first started making television programs, the population of the world has increased three times. That's an extraordinary notion. Can it increase four times? Can it increase five times? The Earth is a finite size. So a point will eventually come when we run out of food, when we run out of space and when we will have destroyed most of the natural world. So ought we to do something about it before that happens?

  David Attenborough

  Running, Clever, Numbers

  6 Copy quote

• Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don't go calling it nasty names like 'bizarre' or 'incredible'. The universe was propagating complex amplitudes through configuration space for ten billion years before life ever emerged on Earth. Quantum physics is not 'weird'. You are weird.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Reality, Years, Names

  6 Copy quote

• It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Facts, Groups

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.176, Broadview Press

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Blue, Bird, Nonsense

  25 Copy quote

• If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Believe, Writing, Editors

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). “Poetry as Insurgent Art”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best we have for explaining what we are like to others in space, with least ambiguity. I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space, over and over again. We would be bragging of course, but it is surely excusable to put the best possible face on at the beginning of such an acquaintance. We can tell the harder truths later.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Would Be, May

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• We don't know whether or not it's the Farewell Tour odr the Jews in Space Tour, which I prefer as a title.

  Gene Simmons

  Farewell, Titles, Jew

  4 Copy quote

• On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at NASA. On top of the picture it says, "We found nothing is impossible." That should be our motto.

  Christopher Reeve

  Wall, Rehabilitation, Rooms

  7 Copy quote

• Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.

  Will Shetterly

  Humorous, Writing, Strange

  4 Copy quote

• The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who were writing their names over the blank spaces, would leave just one small desert for me.

  Rosita Forbes

  Writing, Names, Fascination

  Rosita Forbes (1928). “Adventure”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

  Don DeLillo

  Digital, Clock

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Ratner's Star”, p.295, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The aikido term ma ai, which means "space harmony" ("ai" is Chinese for "love," and it translates into Japanese as harmonious connection) refers to the optimal distance point, where you're close enough to connect well and far enough to enjoy your own space.

  Stephen Gilligan

  Distance, Mean, Chinese

  7 Copy quote

• Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may feel the eternity of time and infinity of space in every throb; it gives us a life within the world as if we were moving about in paradise.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Moving, Heart, Giving

  55 Copy quote

• Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted to be an astronaut. Combined with my love for Navy history and World War II flight ops, and unsatisfying degrees in college and law school, I joined the Navy and became a naval aviator.

  Pete Olson

  Growing Up, War, Moving

  4 Copy quote

• Life is the space between our things.

  Claude Debussy

  Life Is, Space Between

  16 Copy quote