Orbit Quotes

160 quotes by 135 authors

Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system. — Robert A. Heinlein
Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one… — David Lehman
We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take… — David Bottoms
Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings and goings, how… — Carolyn Porco
There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars. — Tycho Brahe
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc. — Jeff VanderMeer
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
She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the… — Billy Wilder
If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot. — Robert G. Allen
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions… — C. Wright Mills
Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the… — Yahoo Serious
Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and… — Duane G. Carey
I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the… — William Hooper
I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a… — Benoit Mandelbrot
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit. — Ambrose Bierce
A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence… — John Stott
In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day — Neil deGrasse Tyson
No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant… — Richard Hakluyt
Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result. — Baba Amte

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