The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Teaching has made me realize that a lot of my fast playing is the musical equivalent of, 'Umm... umm... uhh...' - it's… — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Having an agent who had been through the process a million times and who could walk me through the process freed up… — Molly Yeh Copy Share Image
Surprisingly, a large number of people who fell out with their partners contacted us, saying that they would love to fly on… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Personally, I like to hang out in the kitchen. That's my safe space in a party environment. I feel like it's a… — Hannah Hart Copy Share Image
There were a couple of times that we did end up moving the set [of Helix] outside to shoot some of the… — Kyra Zagorsky Copy Share Image
...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
“As a woman, as a fat woman, I am not supposed to take up space. And yet, as a feminist, I am… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
We could get together all over the world, all races, hold hands together, and hum to death, and try to move the… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Gays and lesbians gained rights in this country though activism and organizing, creating political space and demanding change so that lawmakers and… — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
I started writing because it was hard to find acting jobs. I didn't like any monologues in auditions, so I started to… — Kirsten Vangsness Copy Share Image
In the first place you must study drawing for at least one year; then you must remain with a master at the… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
“Nature … has made it impossible for us to have any communication from this earth with the other great bodies of… — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
We need Big Ideas, as we are in a time of small people, and as Kennedy showed with Apollo, doing something grand… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
I think the film [Aquarius] comes from that original feeling I had 18 years ago, when I was in a São Paulo… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Outside openings to attics, crawl spaces and similar locations should be sealed off so rats and squirrels cant get into houses, garages… — Frank Hall Copy Share Image
Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
“The universe is but one immense unit; it cannot be separated into spatial domains that are totally empty and others that are… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
There's a huge amount of pressure on every astronaut, because when you get right down to it, the experiments that are conducted… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image