1,593 Quotes About Space

Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the universe, interpret this as "See--no weapons"? But no one could think of anything better.

We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.

He's been trying to destroy me, piece by careful piece, while I romanticized every second of it.

The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape.

The idea is that all nonmilitary space travel, manned and unmanned, should be privatized. "If it's worth doing at all," Donner said, "it should be done for profit, and not as a burden on the taxpayers." As though profit could be counted only as immediate financial gain.

Look up and wonder, or we die.

Two encounters in the deepest space. The first terrifying enough; the second far too terrifying for those involved.

A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. My mother was wide awake again. She become sharply herself - bone, wire, antenna - but she was not afraid. She had been pared down like this before, when she had travelled up the mountains into rare snow - alone in white not unlike being alone in black. She had also sailed a boat safely between land and land.

Well what would you expect?" she sputtered. "They can call themselves privateers, but we all know they're just pirates with papers.