Top 1200 Space Station Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

When I was a kid I had a friend who worked in a radio station. Whenever we walked under a bridge, you couldn't hear what he said.

Every station I was at, I never said goodbye - when I was in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oakland, and L.A. I don't know why.

Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It has changed our ideas about time. When you can gird the earth at 1,000 m.p.h., how can you endure the tardiness of a plumber? Most of all, flying has changed our sense of our body, the personal space in which we live, now elastic and swift. I could be in Bombay for afternoon tea if I wished. My body isn't limited by its own weaknesses; it can rush through space.

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.

Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.

I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.

To travel and to get around different places, especially in station wagons, you could really see America.

For those in America, ITV is the biggest channel in the UK and they are getting wrestling on that station on New Year's Eve.

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other's faces with bright pink swirls.

I think there's a very fundamental urge to create a safe space, a home; most animals have that impulse, and humans certainly do - with some exceptions, like nomadic people who perhaps don't feel the need to settle in quite that way. But most of us do want to have space, somewhere we feel secure and where we repeatedly return. Somewhere we can sleep without fear. And there's nothing wrong with that desire. It's completely understandable. It only becomes ugly when that creation of a safe space involves making an enclosure from which other people are kept out.

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

It is right for us not to want our country transformed into a mere corridor, a giant railway station.

Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long.

We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us, putting cyber alongside land, sea, air and space as a mainstream military activity.

Politically I don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country.

The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved.

I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space'. Now I am an algebraic object, so I must say goodbye to my home village, the space, but I will always keep it in my heart as a set of maximal ideals.

I started off on 'The Cipha Sounds Effect' on Sirius. The whole station was just very male-dominated.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.

The first time I experimented with sound design was on 'Fruitvale Station,' where I recorded the BART train and manipulated it.

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.

I give myself a Pilates/yoga hybrid mat class almost every day. I also continue to take ballet classes. Both of these practices help me to be aware of my body, my center, and how I move, both with my physical space and my mental space.

When any part of the Station is moved from its designated location to do a repair, we really risk losing things.

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

Under the law, the FCC does not have the authority to revoke a license of a broadcast station based on the content of a particular newscast.

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

The Hubble Space Telescope, which was designed for extreme servicing, you know, we can fix everything. And the James Webb Space Telescope, where we can fix nothing. It has to work the first time. And it's a very complicated telescope.

Space may seem distant, but is an integral part of our daily life. It drives our modern communication and connects even the remotest family to the ordinary. India's space programme is a perfect example of our vision of Scale, Speed and Skill.

Science does not just drive space travel - space travel also drives science.

Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.

I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.

There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. All kinds of danger wait for him on the Earth. . . . We have said a great deal about the advantages of migration into space, but not all can be said or even imagined.

I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

He ran a gas station down in St. Louis. No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

Have the man at the station put the air in the tires. I did it once myself. Have you ever seen a car with a limp?

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!

I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

The government has confiscated over 360 acres of my choicest pastureland to build a radar intercepting station.

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers. I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space.

We conventionally divide space into private and public realms, and we know these legal distinctions very well because we've become experts at protecting our private property and private space. But we're less attuned to the nuances of the public.

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

It's easier to get funding for a gas station than to start the next Facebook or Twitter in the Mideast.

If Al Jazeera America becomes just another mainstream TV station, it is definitely not going to succeed.

Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.

We're in space and space is the place!

If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only intellegent beings in the galaxy we should make sure we survive and continue. . . . Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space.

True, I drive an Italian sports car around Hollywood, but the radio is tuned to a country-and-Western station.

When I got hired to do 'Guardians,' it was the dream of a lifetime for me. This is what I've been working towards. I've always wanted to create a space adventure, and especially a space adventure with a raccoon. Now that I'm finally able to do it, I created exactly the movie I wanted to make.

I look forward to the day that I can go with my daughters to the polling station for them to cast their first vote.

I still remember discovering the classic rock station when I was in high school and being totally blown away by it.

It's a pipe dream, but for me, I've always wanted a Tesla. I would never have to go to a gas station.

I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.