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Space Quotes

Space means something different at every scale.

These space quotes cover a surprising range — screenwriters complaining about crowded cafe tables, a musician resisting being boxed into one sonic style, and an old joke about the outer-space program's tax-dollar value. For more on the physical world, see our Earth quotes.

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

Quotes by Richard Corliss

Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman...

Quotes by Richard Corliss

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep...

Quotes by Richard Dawkins

We have one planet in our solar system that's habitable, and that's the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this...

Quotes by Richard Branson

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

Quotes by Richard Brautigan

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

Quotes by Rhys Ifans

I'll never get my chest tatted up, and I'm not big on tattoos on the legs. I'm running out of space on my body; I'd like to get more but I haven't figured out where I'll put them or what...

Quotes by Rey Mysterio

I think 'Overlord' has definitely benefited because I work with every single level designer, and working where we have space to tell the story. That's what it's all about - getting writers and storytellers involved in the team and being...

Quotes by Rhianna Pratchett

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

Quotes by Renzo Piano

I asked someone once why he liked Jean-Michel's work and why it was being singled out for acclaim, and he said, 'Because it looks like art.' But then again, art doesn't always look like art at first. The way the...

Quotes by Rene Ricard

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry......

Quotes by Rene Auberjonois

I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space.

Quotes by Rene Burri

We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing.

Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do...

Quotes by Regina Spektor

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

Quotes by Reed Hastings

The competitive landscape for us is very broad. We see ourselves in the entertainment space. We compete with listening to the radio. We compete with watching TV. We compete with social networks.

Quotes by Reggie Fils-Aime

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Quotes by Rebecca West

The Internet is a politically contested space.

Quotes by Rebecca MacKinnon

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly...

Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a witty quote about screenwriters taking up table space?
Yes, one quote pokes fun at the profession: "The dull externals of the screenwriter's working life are well known: We are the people taking up too much table space at cafes." For more reflections on everyday life, see our Life quotes.
Is there a quote about staying open to different musical spaces?
Yes, one quote says: "It's important to me to not stay too confined to any specific sonic space." It's a personal statement about not wanting to be boxed into one style. For more first-person reflections like this, see our Me quotes.
Is there a quote about the outer-space program and taxes?
Yes, one quote jokes: "There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further." If you'd rather stay grounded, our Earth quotes offer a different perspective.
Is there a quote about seeking a utopian kind of space?
Yes, one quote imagines something bigger: "Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes."
Where can I find more quotes about things people enjoy or relate to?
Browse our Like quotes for more short, relatable lines on what people enjoy or gravitate toward.

Utopian and imaginative takes on space and landscape round things out here, alongside broader reflections on Life and Like quotes for related themes.