S Quotes
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“Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing. . . . It is all rather rot.”
“Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but when. A planetary culture that does not develop spacefaring is courting suicide. All our history, all our social progress and growing insight will be for nothing if we perish. No risk of this kind, however small it might be argued to be, is worth taking, and no cost to prevent it is too great. No level of risk is acceptable when it comes to all or nothing survival.”
“Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.”
“Space was a hostile environment that required a sharp and cunning mind over prestige any day. That, and a shit load of weapons.”
Source: Demon Possession
“Space we can recover; time never.”
“Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.”
Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950
“Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.”
“Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.”
“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”
“Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through the agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence. Some of the various densities of the aether have only a partial or probablistic differentiation into existence, and are somewhat indeterminate in space and time. In the same way that mass exists as a curvature in space-time, extending with a gradually diminishing force to infinity that we recognize as gravity, so do all events, particularly events involving the human mind, send ripples through all creation.”
Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
“Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.”
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.”
“Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.”
“Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity”
Source: The Future of Architecture
“SPACEBALL RICOCHET"
"I'm just a man
I understand the wind
And all the things that make the children cry
With my Les Paul
I know I'm small
But I enjoy living anyway
Book after book
I get hooked everytime
The writer talks to me like a friend
What can I do
We just live in a zoo
All I do is play the spaceball ricochet
Deep in my heart
There's a house
That can hold just about all of you
I bought a car
It was old but kind
I gave it my mind and it disappeared
I love a girl
She is a changeless angel
She's a city it's a pity that I'm like me
I said how can I lay
When all I do is play
The spaceball ricochet
I'm just a man
I understand the wind
And all the things that make the children cry
With my Les Paul
I know I'm small
But I enjoy living anyway, yes too
Deep in my heart
There's a house
That can hold just about all of you
How can I lay
When all I do is play
The spaceball ricochet
Oh Baby, the spaceball ricochet
Oh Mama, the spaceball
Oh, do the spaceball ...”
Source: The Slider Song Album
“Spaced repetition fosters and guarantees retention. Learners interact with knowledge, revisiting it at intervals, ensuring that what's learned stays ingrained and is transformed into understanding.”
“Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!”
“Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture.”
“Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.”
Source: Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
“Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.”
Source: The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth
“Spacemen die if they stay in one place.”
Source: The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth
“Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.”
“SPACES... BREAKS...TO CONTEMPLATE THINGS... TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT...”
Source: Isla and the Happily Ever After
“Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.”
Source: Hannibal Rising
“Spaces may or may not invite the image - if they do, they mostly do it with their spatial layers of time... It is then the image that takes the place of the space; the image in its own right.”
“Spaces of liberation are, in a certain way, some kind of social spaces where people can not only get together and think about something else, but also act together. If you are thinking about an elemental solidarity, you are thinking about people acting together and taking decisions together, and thereby beginning to think about what sort of society they want to create. So, there is a need for liberated spaces; that is really difficult.”
“Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.”
Source: Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
“SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.”
“SpaceX is destroying professional astronomy.”
“SpaceX is in the process of creating the greatest environmental catastrophe I have ever witnessed.”
“Spade didn't respond with any useless, comforting cliches, for which she was grateful. She's head enough of those well-meaning phrases after Randy died. Why couldn't people acknowledge that occasionally, life just sucked? Didn't they realize that sometime silence was more comforting than the more sincere expression of sympathy or attempt at showing the deeper meaning behind it all?”
Source: First Drop of Crimson
“Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.”
“Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!”
Source: The Never War
“Spaghetti alla puttanesca is typically made with tomatoes, olives, anchovies, capers, and garlic. It means, literally, "spaghetti in the style of a prostitute." It is a sloppy dish, the tomatoes and oil making the spaghetti lubricated and slippery. It is the sort of sauce that demands you slurp the noodles Goodfellas style, staining your cheeks with flecks of orange and red. It is very salty and very tangy and altogether very strong; after a small plate, you feel like you've had a visceral and significant experience.
There are varying accounts as to when and how the dish originated- but the most likely explanation is that it became popular in the mid-twentieth century. The first documented mention of it is in Raffaele La Capria's 1961 novel, Ferito a Morte. According to the Italian Pasta Makers Union, spaghetti alla puttanesca was a very popular dish throughout the sixties, but its exact genesis is not quite known. Sandro Petti, a famous Napoli chef and co-owner of Ischian restaurant Rangio Fellone, claims to be its creator. Near closing time one evening, a group of customers sat at one of his tables and demanded to be served a meal. Running low on ingredients, Petti told them he didn't have enough to make anything, but they insisted. They were tired, and they were hungry, and they wanted pasta. "Facci una puttanata qualsiasi!" they cried. "Make any kind of garbage!" The late-night eater is not usually the most discerning. Petti raided the kitchen, finding four tomatoes, two olives, and a jar of capers, the base of the now-famous spaghetti dish; he included it on his menu the next day under the name spaghetti alla puttanesca. Others have their own origin myths. But the most common theory is that it was a quick, satisfying dish that the working girls of Naples could knock up with just a few key ingredients found at the back of the fridge- after a long and unforgiving night.
As with all dishes containing tomatoes, there are lots of variations in technique. Some use a combination of tinned and fresh tomatoes, while others opt for a squirt of puree. Some require specifically cherry or plum tomatoes, while others go for a smooth, premade pasta. Many suggest that a teaspoon of sugar will "open up the flavor," though that has never really worked for me. I prefer fresh, chopped, and very ripe, cooked for a really long time. Tomatoes always take longer to cook than you think they will- I rarely go for anything less than an hour. This will make the sauce stronger, thicker, and less watery. Most recipes include onions, but I prefer to infuse the oil with onions, frying them until brown, then chucking them out. I like a little kick in most things, but especially in pasta, so I usually go for a generous dousing of chili flakes. I crush three or four cloves of garlic into the oil, then add any extras. The classic is olives, anchovies, and capers, though sometimes I add a handful of fresh spinach, which nicely soaks up any excess water- and the strange, metallic taste of cooked spinach adds an interesting extra dimension. The sauce is naturally quite salty, but I like to add a pinch of sea or Himalayan salt, too, which gives it a slightly more buttery taste, as opposed to the sharp, acrid salt of olives and anchovies. I once made this for a vegetarian friend, substituting braised tofu for anchovies. Usually a solid fish replacement, braised tofu is more like tuna than anchovy, so it was a mistake for puttanesca. It gave the dish an unpleasant solidity and heft. You want a fish that slips and melts into the pasta, not one that dominates it.
In terms of garnishing, I go for dried oregano or fresh basil (never fresh oregano or dried basil) and a modest sprinkle of cheese. Oh, and I always use spaghetti. Not fettuccine. Not penne. Not farfalle. Not rigatoni. Not even linguine. Always spaghetti.”
Source: Supper Club
“Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.”
“Spaghetti del mare," she said, coming through the door, "from the sea."
In the large, wide blue bowl, swirls of thin noodles wove their way between dark black shells and bits of red tomato.
"Breathe first," Charlie told him, "eyes closed." The steam rose off the pasta like ocean turned into air.
"Clams, mussels," Tom said, "garlic, of course, and tomatoes. Red pepper flakes. Butter, wine, oil."
"One more," she coaxed.
He leaned in- smelled hillsides in the sun, hot ground, stone walls. "Oregano," he said, opening his eyes. Charlie smiled and handed him a forkful of pasta. After the sweetness of the melon, the flavor was full of red bursts and spikes of hot pepper shooting across his tongue, underneath, like a steadying hand, a salty cushion of clam, the soft velvet of oregano, and pasta warm as beach sand.”
Source: The School of Essential Ingredients
“Spaghetti, Fleischsauce im Glas, vierzehn Fertiggerichte, ein Dutzend Eier und ein Netz Navelorangen zum Schutz vor Skorbut.”
Source: Roadwork
“Spaghetti is good with ranch, and spaghetti is good with sugar. You put all of that together and make a sandwich out of it and you get greatness. People shouldn't judge unless they try it.”
“Spaghetti is no food for fighters.”
“Spaghetti thinking prevents taking action towards solutions.
If you are frustrated with a coworker, have a child who can’t seem to make a decision or have a friend who seems to have the same set of problems over and over, then they are probably in spaghetti thinking. You ask them something and they get off topic. They talk their way around the real problem. They avoid the most important problem to solve. You want them to commit to solving one problem and they throw 15 other problems in the pile. They avoid real action and real solutions and comfort themselves with venting and overthinking.
Spaghetti thinking prevents clarity, wastes time, and prevents productivity.”
Source: Problem Solved: Simple Habits For Complex Decisions
“Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.”
“Spaghetti... I can't eat spaghetti, there's too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,000 of something is too many. I'll have 1,000 pieces of noodles.”
“Spahn and Sain and pray for rain.”
“Spain actually had few cases before May, but the country was neutral during the war. That meant the government did not censor the press, and unlike French, German, and British newspapers—which printed nothing negative, nothing that might hurt morale—Spanish papers were filled with reports of the disease, especially when King Alphonse XIII fell seriously ill.
The disease soon became known as “Spanish influenza” or “Spanish flu,” very likely because only Spanish newspapers were publishing accounts of the spread of the disease that were picked up in other countries.”
Source: The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
“Spain and southern Italy, in which Catholicism has most deeply implanted its roots, are even now, probably beyond all other countries in Europe, those in which inhumanity to animals is most wanton and unrebuked.”
“Spain believe in what they do; they have absolute confidence in their style of play.”
“Spain has been massively diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored environmental projects for the better part of a decade...every green job created, eliminated 2.2 real jobs and cost around $800,000 each!”
“Spain has some of the richest culinary traditions and truly appreciates food that is simply prepared with top-notch ingredients.”
“Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.”