Orbit Quotes

160 quotes by 135 authors

Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation… — Paul Davies
Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM. — Bill Gates
Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training,… — Susan Sontag
After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room… — John L. Phillips
Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists… — Dalai Lama
We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others. — Joan Z. Borysenko
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit… — Daniel Day-Lewis
Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit. — Robert Crippen
We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless. — Robert Crippen
You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half. — Robert Crippen
My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And… — K. Eric Drexler
Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living… — Arthur C. Clarke
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new… — Caroline Knapp
The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul. — Oscar Wilde
Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way to… — Steven Pressfield
Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth, — Steve Jurvetson
Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility… — Ben Parr
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together… — Nicolaus Copernicus

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