Orbit Quotes

160 quotes by 135 authors

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops… — Quentin Crisp
For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is… — Chris Hadfield
NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of… — James Lovelock
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in… — David Mitchell
Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on… — Nathan Myhrvold
To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits… — Susan Orlean
I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's… — Sally Ride
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. — Sally Ride
When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the… — Sally Ride
If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves..." If the veil were rent today, and the great God who… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their… — Haruki Murakami
It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet...… — Thomas Wolfe
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's one tiny little gap in the universe left, just about to close. And it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm… — Russell T Davies
Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in… — Brian Morton
Really, Rachel looked like a sun, bright and exuding energy, holding us two moons in a parallel orbit by the sheer force of her will. — Maggie Stiefvater
Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today… — Jerry Spinelli
I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me,… — Soren Kierkegaard
Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid… — Christopher Moore

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