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" For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone who has read 'The God of Small Things' would know, for me it was a dangerous place. I felt humiliated in that space. I wanted to get away as soon as I could. "

Arundhati Roy

God

Family

Space

" Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done. "

" The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space. "

" Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people. "

" Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay. "

" Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a maze/haze of deception. The journey of women becoming is breaking through this maze - springing into free space, which is an a-mazing process. "

" The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space. "

" Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. "

Iris Murdoch

Space

Some

" I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations. "

" Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. "

Blaise Pascal

Universe

World

" Weightlessness was unbelievable. It's physical euphoria: Nothing about you has any weight. You don't realize that you are weighed down all the time by yourself, and your organs, and your head. Your arms weigh down your shoulders. In space simulation, you get to fly like Superman! You're hanging in the air! It's the coolest thing. "

" So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space. "

" When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be. "

" Throughout history, when societies have been faced with big challenges, they've put their best people on them. During the Space Race, American and Russian scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts pushed the bounds of what was possible and landed men on the moon. "

" The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb. "

" There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. "

" Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. "

" Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life... when you're a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn't the fact that you do the laundry. "

" Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental. "

" I will waste an extraordinary amount of time, you know. And if it's not watching television, I'll be sitting staring out of the window. And yes, I know there's the idea of the artist, sitting there doing nothing while things are going on, but actually, no. It's vacant space. I'm thinking about the laundry. "

" The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it. "

Sally Ride

Space

Expectations

" If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization. "

" That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is. "

" But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space. "

" Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond. "

" One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us. "

" A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. "

" Past experience has shown that the Islamists gain space when civilian authority weakens. "

" Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy. "

" One thing that flying in space does for you is it gives you a change in perspective. We all have to live in the same place. "