Orbit Quotes · Page 2

NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.

— Marc Garneau

While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit.

— Louise Wilder

Phil Taylor's got the consistency of a planet ... and he's in a darts orbit!

— Sid Waddell

Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.

— Austin O'Malley

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

— Max Bill

Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.

— Paulo Coelho

But every crew that makes it to orbit is lucky. Spaceflight's not easy.

— Anne McClain

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

— Sally Ride

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities…

— K. Eric Drexler

I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have…

— Dan Quayle

Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing…

— Buzz Aldrin

I've been very happy with Orbit and am thrilled that they're giving me more chances to explore my creative visions.

— N. K. Jemisin

“Those are the things in the water that keep the moon in orbit. I've never quite understood just how they work. You…

— Matthew Goldman

In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all…

— David Bottoms

At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit… No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by…

— Henry David Thoreau

As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has done this before,…

— Christopher Isherwood

Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets…

— Baron d'Holbach

I think a colony in space will take much longer than sci fiction writers think. It costs $10,000 to put a pound…

— Michio Kaku

The miniaturization of electronics, which ultimately was driven by the marketplace, was started by NASA, because it costs money to get something…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would…

— Johannes Kepler

What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major…

— Guillermo Gonzalez

I think the fact that they all served under her as a president is a strong pull. Here's a perfect example: George…

— David Mandel

A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to…

— James Hutton

Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated…

— Anthony Kiedis

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the…

— Haruki Murakami

New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out…

— David Levithan

Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and…

— Gregory Maguire

This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ…

— Urbain Le Verrier

The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology,…

— Immanuel Velikovsky

. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.

— Douglas Coupland

Like a satellite in orbit, Apple is perpetually falling. It just happens to miss Earth every time.

— Horace Dediu

Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.

— Brian Walker

There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into orbit.

— Donald E. Brownlee

In the [Michael] Jackson orbit, normal is relative. What a mess.

— Roxanne Roberts

We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits.

— Richard Branson

No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable.

— Burt Rutan

I'm not going into infinity. I'm going into low earth orbit.

— Helen Sharman