Space Quotes - Page 36

• If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.

  John Ruskin

  Angel, Thinking, People

  John Ruskin “Works: Modern painters”

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• The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Reality, Democracy, Principles

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• I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.

  Jean Cocteau

  Loyalty, Children, Light

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• Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

  Henry Rollins

  Would Be, Looks, Able

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• 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.

  Henry Rollins

  Effort, Obscure, Distraction

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• In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.

  Twyla Tharp

  Emotional, Breathing Space, Enough

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• ...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body, and by the opaqueness of the computer-like mind. All three examples [Jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, and Therese Neumann] illustrates the paradoxical truth that such 'higher powers' cannot be acquired by any kind of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Personality, Humanity, Mind

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• We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just about any wacky thing they tell us, especially if it involves outer space.

  Dave Barry

  Scientist, Print, Journalist

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• Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Doe, Photograph, Speeding

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• Disneyland celebrated its 40th anniversary by burying a time capsule. They say it will be dug up in 50 years - or when the last person in line at Space Mountain gets to the front, whichever comes first.

  Jay Leno

  Years, Mountain, Lines

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• An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.

  Walt Whitman

  Reality, Brain, Daguerreotypes

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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• Space tourism is God's way of telling you you aren't spending enough on lap dances, baccarat and cocaine.

  Bill Maher

  Tourism, Lap, Way

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• I am a pack of nerves while waiting for the moment, and this feeling grows and grows and grows and then it explodes, it is a physical joy, a dance, space and time united. Yes, yes, yes, yes!

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Joy, Waiting, Feelings

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• I'm not smart enough to write about something that didn't actually happen to me. But I couldn't write a space movie if you put a gun to my head.

  Paul Reiser

  Smart, Writing, Gun

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• Magazines are another medium I love, because 95% is simply based on 'How the hell are we going to fill all this blank space?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Love Is, Magazines, Hell

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• I want to launch a globe into space just to mess with the astronauts.

  Demetri Martin

  Want, Astronaut, Globes

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• They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Flower, Inward, Demand

  Lawrence Durrell (2011). “Bitter Lemons of Cyprus”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.

  David Hockney

  People, Interesting, Cameras

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• Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them. I am reminded of an unnerving scene in Stanley Kubrick's epic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where an astronaut, his air hose cut by the master computer gone amok, spins helplessly off into space.

  Camille Paglia

  Cutting, Epic, Air

  "The Magic of Images: Word and Picture in a Media Age". Arion Vol. 11, no 3, Spring 2004.

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• Well, we now have such a photograph... Has any new idea been let loose? It certainly has. You will have noticed how suddenly everybody has become seriously concerned to protect the natural environment... It seems to me more than a coincidence that this awareness should have happened at exactly the moment man took his first step into space.

  Fred Hoyle

  Men, Should Have, Ideas

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• I don't care what the press is about a person that I'm working with. I care about how they come to work every day. I don't care who broke up with who or who is sleeping with who or who went out where. I don't care what you do with your personal life. It's when people take their personal lives into a space where it affects their performance at work, that's when I would stop taking someone seriously.

  Sophia Bush

  Sleep, People, Care

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• Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Photography, Shots, Interiors

  Gilles Deleuze (2013). “Cinema I: The Movement-Image”, p.68, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I think my first impression (of Bix Beiderbecke) was the lasting one. I remember very clearly thinking, 'Where, what planet, did this guy come from? Is he from outer space?' I'd never heard anything like the way he played-not in Chicago, no place. The tone-he had this wonderful, ringing cornet tone. He could have played in a symphony orchestra with that tone. But also the intervals he played, the figures-whatever the hell he did. There was a refinement about his playing. You know, in those days I played a little trumpet, and I could play all the solos from his records, by heart.

  Benny Goodman

  Heart, Thinking, Play

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• A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

  Paul Goldberger

  Strong, Boeing 747, Noble

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• London and the south-east of England are very crowded spaces. Wherever a new runway is placed, thousands will be affected. Residents in nearby Longford, Harmondsworth and Sipson, which lie to the north of Heathrow, face having their homes compulsorily purchased for land to build the new runway.

  Tim Bowler

  Lying, Home, Land

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