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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.

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

Quotes by J. Michael Straczynski

When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.

Quotes by J. Michael Straczynski

We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a...

Quotes by J. A. Konrath

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.

Quotes by Ivo Andric

From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh.

Quotes by Issey Miyake

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.

Quotes by Isabelle Holland

Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it...

Quotes by Isabelle Huppert

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is...

Quotes by Isaac Newton

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

Quotes by Iris Chang

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

Quotes by Iris Murdoch

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

Quotes by Ira Glass

'Fright Night' I can just about deal with. Because the original is such a 1980s extravaganza. Which is a good thing. Obviously. But something like 'The Others' or anything psychological: I'm no good with that. I don't like it when...

Quotes by Imogen Poots

I grew up in a household where we all celebrated who we were. There was no space to make people feel different or 'less than.'

Quotes by Ilhan Omar

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or...

Quotes by Iggy Pop

I was never a fan of sci-fi or space stuff.

Quotes by Ignacio Serricchio

I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little...

Quotes by Ian Rankin

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

Quotes by Iain McGilchrist

The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to...

Quotes by Iain Sinclair

I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.

Quotes by Ian Anderson

When I was living in New York, I tried to make it work for a year, but I didn't really have my own space to be creative. It was really inspiring, but I think that coming to L.A. has allowed...

Quotes by Hunter Schafer

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.