1,593 Quotes About Space

  • Author Michael Poeltl
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    The storm long past, the night sky was beset with stars. Pointing upward, I asked her to pick a point of light and stay with it. Standing up, I eased Sara to her feet. Whispering into her ear, I asked, “Have you ever stood under a star... and felt the earth move under your feet?

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  • Author Erik Pevernagie
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    Through dreams and ideas we are seduced to go back to particular places and instances of our past. In the course of the years, these singular moments and spaces of our history very often receive then another color and dimension. Our mind tries however to tame and keep in control the phantoms of times past. If not so, our memory can be subject to an irreversible mutilation. ( "The mutilated memory" )

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  • Author Afonso Cruz
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    Mesmo os lugares mais rarefeitos, como o espaço sideral e a estupidez humana, são preenchidos por alguma coisa: luz, metais leves, preconceitos, partículas e subpartículas dos átomos, radiações, chavões e telenovelas.

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  • Author Roger Ebert
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    How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story "Nightfall," about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove people mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.

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