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" Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare! "

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" Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. "

" Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe. "

" The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited. "

" I'm one of those actors who's going to have to create a space for themselves. It's very easy to be the young Tom Cruise, because Hollywood knows what to do with you. But if you're someone who's bringing someone slightly left of center to the table, you're not a sure thing. "

Wentworth Miller

" When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. "

" If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done. "

Christa McAuliffe

" Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" I am proudest of that first novel, 'Trust,' of anything I have written. I don't think I've had such intense energy since. "

" Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers. "

" In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect. "

" Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature. "

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

" In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration. "

John L. Phillips

" I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air. "

" Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face. "

" I don't think I could live with anybody. I had roommates, and it's not for me. I like my space! "

" Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. "

Marshall McLuhan

" Whenever there was chaos in my house, whether it was arguing, being in a cramped space with all of us kids and screaming, I found an empty space where I could just put music on and move. "

" The engineering is secondary to the vision. "

" We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect. "

" Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos that does not match the Space Age revelation of a unified universe in which the earth is clearly in, rather than separated from, the heavens. Hierarchical representations do not reflect what either the world or we are like. "

" If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don't want a jumble of other people's voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don't create static in that silence. "

" America has tossed its cap over the wall of space. "

John F. Kennedy

" Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby. "

Wendelin Van Draanen

" It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. "

" In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off! "

Peter Diamandis

" Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it's occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception. "

" Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes. "

" Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives. "