Kilometers Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would… — Arthur C. Clarke
I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in… — Miguel Indurain
One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided… — Arthur C. Clarke
Space is about 100 kilometers away. Thatâ€™s far awayâ€”I wouldnâ€™t want to climb a ladder to get thereâ€”but it isnâ€™t that far away. If youâ€™re… — Randall Munroe
You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of… — Mark Z. Jacobson
To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance of… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
I walked about 55 kilometers and was awake for 25 hours. Now I have to think about setting a sleeping record. — Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami
Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before… — Arthur C. Clarke
After 120 kilometers my body said, â€˜ooh, ooh Jens! What were you thinking?â€™ — Jens Voigt
By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called â€œCarl Sagan Memorial Station.â€ But with all due respect to Carl, I can… — Andy Weir
At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you… — Isaac Asimov
I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill. — Gene Cernan
Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2… — Haruki Murakami
We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a result, the threat… — Norman Myers
Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and… — Melina Marchetta
Iâ€™m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour. — Ann Aguirre
I left the jutra to chop wood. I began my walk through the snow, five kilometers to the tree line. That's when I saw it.… — Ruta Sepetys
What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle… — Carl Sagan
The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go. — John Flanagan
They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she… — Lois McMaster Bujold

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