Charles Stross Quotes

The first rule of space travel...is that mistakes are fatal. Space isn’t friendly; it kills you. And there are no second chances.'

Charles Stross

• Space
• Travel

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• If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Running
  • Space
  • Hiking

• So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

  

  Sally Ride
  • You
  • Space
  • First

• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Night

• Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Space
  • Intelligent

• Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Management
  • Decisions

• When I'm auditioning for something, if it's not me, I really hope the part doesn't go to me. You know what I mean? I don't want to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. If it's me, wonderful. If it's not me, there's space for all of us.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Space

• Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Space
  • Acting
  • Places

• One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Time
  • Running
  • Ego

• Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.

  

  Sam Weller
  • Running
  • Space
  • Down

• I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. They all have their own presence when they walk into a room, and I was excited to see what Tom Selleck's 'space' was going to be like.

  

  Vanessa Ray
  • Great
  • Space
  • Cool

• When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Remember
  • Earth
  • Space

• I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Space
  • Beauty

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Today
  • Space
  • Smart

• I like to space out my work.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Space
  • Like

• I travel a lot. I'm on the move.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Travel
  • Move
  • Lot

• I'd love to time travel.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Love
  • Travel

• I'm all in favor of the FTC investigating companies when it believes there is proper cause to do so. An investigation, however, can lead to political pressure to bring a case, even if such a case is unwarranted.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Political

• We know that a smarter Australia means a stronger Australia. An Australia able to grasp the opportunities of the Asian Century. A skilled workforce and a strong, productive and resilient economy. We know we'll only win the economic race in the Asian Century if we win the education race.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Strong
  • Education
  • Win

• Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth; Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Men
  • Alone
  • Morning

• My wife was pregnant while we were promoting 'Ant-Man,' and that was very exciting, to see, like, action figures of myself, as we're getting the nursery ready.

  

  Corey Stoll
  • Action
  • Wife

• The first rule of space travel...is that mistakes are fatal. Space isn’t friendly; it kills you. And there are no second chances.'

  

  Charles Stross
  • Space
  • Travel