Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The… — George Kukla Copy Share Image
Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot. — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Long ago when a child lay in a manger, a special star appeared. It didn't just show up that evening. It had… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
America was good enough to make a small compact lighter weight nuclear weapon. The Russians still had these big clunky heavy ones,… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to… — Richard Hakluyt Copy Share Image
Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The earth turns on its orbit for You. The oceans ebb and flow for You. The birds sing for You. The sun… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Fortunately, most things around the supermassive black hole are just going to go around it. They're going to orbit it. They don't… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley’s Comet,… — Jamie Ford Copy Share Image
If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
A man needs a much bigger orbit than a woman. He needs a mission, a life purpose, and he needs to know… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The star S0-2 orbits around Sgr A* every 16 years and will go through its closest approach in 2018. That's an opportunity… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get… — Laurel Clark Copy Share Image
For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight.… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“If you can orbit the planet, why can't you see what makes the human heart happy? Is it art or is it… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be… — G. Harry Stine Copy Share Image
Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
