I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
There's no way anyone's going to understand my own personal experiences, where the songs came from, because they're mine. But I was… — Conor O'Brien Copy Share Image
Competing against each other leaves little space for reciprocity and the growth of social capital. Running against another in a race may… — Eva Cox Copy Share Image
“I had to choose between getting burned by my father, the sun, relentlessly burning and leaving me burnt. Too hurt, too scorching… — Isabel Villarreal Copy Share Image
If I got the option of going into outer space and hanging out there for a day and then coming back home… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth,… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the field of consciousness research-and also in physics and astronomy-we are breaking past the cause-and-effect, mechanistic way of interpreting things. In… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Almost everything I do when I approach an operational problem comes from the time I've been in space. It's a way of… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
I think we live in a world where the most important thing is daily life: sharing a space with your family, making… — Ana Tijoux Copy Share Image
“The official record for the fastest manmade object is the Helios 2 probe, which reached about 70 km/s in a close swing… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
You look at teams in college, the MMA world, and beyond that allow bullying, where guys get jealous during training and stuff… — Urijah Faber Copy Share Image
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He asked whether I wanted to become an astronaut and I said I did. He said that it was very difficult to… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Look at the universe! What do you see? An order? Tranquillity? A divine peace? You fool! You ignorant! Over there, galaxies are… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Organizing time is exactly like organizing space. Just as a closet is a limited amount of space into which you must fit… — Julie Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“New Rule: If the guy who makes up the poll questions at CNN doesn't want to do it anymore more, he should… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and… — Alexey Leonov Copy Share Image
I find myself now preaching about the golden age of manned spaceflight, because something went on there, within us, that we’re missing.… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
One asana is strong, then again another is very soft and gentle. So you have this modulation from one asana to another,… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Dullea, who was… — Dule Hill Copy Share Image
He dipped his head, placing his mouth to the space below her ear. He nipped her there, just a tiny bite that… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
I think it's perfectly OK to exploit the moon. Largely for two reasons: there's no life there, and it is close enough… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending.… — James Hetfield Copy Share Image
I'm always looking to find order within the chaos. And sometimes when my life gets fairly chaotic, I'll take a walk outside.… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“Did you say extraterrestrial life?' asked the reporter, amused. She wasn't buying this. Nobody believes the weirdos, even if the US military… — Bellatuscana Copy Share Image
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
It is amazing that 2001: A Space Odyssey has not aged at all, except for a few minor technical gadgets. The main… — Jan Harlan Copy Share Image
“One of the basic principles of every single art form has to do not with what’s there—the music, the words, the movement,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
The most important steps that I followed were studying math and science in school. I was always interested in physics and astronomy… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free… — Georges Besancon Copy Share Image
Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“The taxi stand was only an open shelter, so I was freezing as I looked toward midtown. I could see the RCA… — Lou Antonelli Copy Share Image
“Whether “cyberspace” is a real place or not, our experience of electronic space is a “real” experience. By distinguishing the constitution of… — Scott Bukatman Copy Share Image
