# Space Quotes! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 19, 2015, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564 "2015-07-19T01:33:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/1 "2015-07-19T01:33:47Z")
I am in need of a collection of quotes that relate in some way to space. Rules: - Gotta be tweet-length or shorter. No paragraph-long quotes. - Nothing too offensive. Mild swears only. - Anything from books to video games to real life are acceptable. - Niche is good, but not too niche. The quote should be familiar to anyone that knows the material. - Cliche is fine. This isn’t for something of deep importance. - I don’t want your top 100 quotes from movie X. Pick the best. Some examples: - My god, it’s full of stars. - I aim at the stars, but sometimes I hit London. - If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. - Live long and prosper. - I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. - Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space. - SPAAAAAACE! - You must construct additional pylons. - Do a barrel roll! Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/2 "2015-07-19T01:39:21Z")
“Pigs in Spaaaaaace!” ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/3 "2015-07-19T01:41:24Z")
“Do you know the Klingon proverb ‘Revenge is a dish best served cold’? It is very cold, in space.” “In space, no one can hear you scream.” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/4 "2015-07-19T01:45:57Z")
“Houston, we have a problem!” “The Eagle has landed.” “That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.” “Open the pod-bay doors, HAL.” ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/5 "2015-07-19T01:49:08Z")
Magnificent Desolation. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/6 "2015-07-19T01:52:36Z")
“Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.” – John Archibald Wheeler “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” – Carl Sagan “Space. It seems to go on and on forever. Then you get to the end, and a monkey starts throwing barrels at you.” – Fry Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/7 "2015-07-19T01:55:11Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s unfortunate, but the way the American people are, now that they have developed all of this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away. - President Lyndon Johnson talking about the Apollo program ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/8 "2015-07-19T02:51:33Z")
[Spaaace Ghooost!!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FRW2bOqvzI) “Open the pod bay doors, HAL” “Houston we’ve had a problem” curse you mutt!!! ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/9 "2015-07-19T02:53:28Z")
“You killed a black astronaut, Cyril! That’s like killing a unicorn!” ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/10 "2015-07-19T02:55:17Z")
Didn’t we just leave this party? Everything is proceding as I have forseen. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/11 "2015-07-19T03:18:48Z")
Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/12 "2015-07-19T03:30:18Z")
“Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!” “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/13 "2015-07-19T04:18:03Z")
Excellent work so far. Keep 'em coming. I need enough for a full orbit at one minute spacing! ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/14 "2015-07-19T04:21:20Z")
Spam in a can. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/15 "2015-07-19T04:52:06Z")
“They think I’m crazy, but I know better. It is not I who am crazy. It is I who am _mad_! Didn’t you hear them? Didn’t you see the crowd?” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/16 "2015-07-19T04:53:48Z")
Here am I floating round my tin can, far above the Moon. Planet Earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/17 "2015-07-19T05:00:43Z")
Yeah, maybe I do have the right–What’s that stuff? ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/18 "2015-07-19T06:36:51Z")
Astronaut Allan Shepard’s prayer: “Dear God, please don’t let me fuck up!” ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/19 "2015-07-19T12:27:01Z")
Danger Will Robinson! In the move Red Planet? there is the “space janitor” played by Val Kilmer. At some point he says something to the effect of “My math teacher Mr. Jones was right. On day math WOULD save my life”. Also: “I sense hostility Captain” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/20 "2015-07-19T14:25:00Z")
_The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space._ \* Wanna take a ride?\* [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564.md?page=2)