Orbit Quotes

There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.

— Tycho Brahe

Poetry is language in orbit.

— Seamus Heaney

“Now don't warp your orbit, Mac.”

— Alfred Bester

“She couldn't break the orbit.”

— Victoria Schwab

The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

— Giordano Bruno

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

— Marc Garneau

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

— Bill Gates

“I'm in orbit around you, can't you see that? I can move around you, but never away”

— Kahlen Aymes

“Women were gravitating towards him from all directions like a planetary orbit. (Zoe on meeting Justus)”

— Dannika Dark

Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.

— Robert Crippen

I will free NASA from the restriction of serving primarily as a logistics agency for low-earth orbit activity.

— Donald Trump

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider…

— David Lehman

They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits,…

— Paolo Giordano

Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including…

— Buzz Aldrin

There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle";…

— Aleister Crowley

On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.

— James A. Michener

Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to…

— Sally Ride

Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line,…

— Sallust

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

No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to…

— Richard Hakluyt

Going into orbit around Earth - where the space station is today, and where the space shuttles and John Glenn and all…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

America was good enough to make a small compact lighter weight nuclear weapon. The Russians still had these big clunky heavy ones,…

— Burt Rutan

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

i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing -…

— Bill Watterson

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God…

— Charles Spurgeon

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

“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

One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if…

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

— James Hutton

As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial…

— Thomas Paine

The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along…

— Henry David Thoreau

When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I was in Donovan Kincaid's orbit. What else was there in the world?”

— Laurelin Paige

“i will forever be colliding with a billion unnamed undiscovered stars, each of us on our own orbital paths.”

— Sanober Khan

I can't wait to use a BabyBjoern. I'm in love with the Orbit Baby stroller, and I also really like the Bugaboo.

— Marisol Nichols