Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Benjamin

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

E. F. Schumacher

After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.

Joe Carroll

We are over the moon at the news.

William Shakespeare

And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

William Shakespeare

My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.

William Shakespeare

Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.

Alan Stern

It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.

Alan Shepard

I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.

Alan Shepard

I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

Samuel Butler

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Samuel Butler

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Samuel Butler

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

Samuel Butler

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Christina Ricci

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Alan Cohen

The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

Alan Cohen

The thoughts you think when you are happiest are the closest to the truth.

Alan Cohen

To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.

Alan Cohen

Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create.

Alan Cohen

The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.

Derek Hall

We don't have a lot of study space that you would find on other campuses. You find a lot of students studying in our concourses.

Rusty Schweickart

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

E. F. Schumacher

...liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity---limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body, and by the opaqueness of the computer-like mind. All three examples [Jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, and Therese Neumann] illustrates the paradoxical truth that such 'higher powers' cannot be acquired by any kind of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you.

Alan Turing

A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.

Alan Shepard

We need a continuing presence in space.

Alan Shepard

The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.

Charles Simonyi

Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

Charles Stross

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).