“If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.” IfsShouldAsksSpaceNonsense Author:Frank Herbert
“Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.” WorldAsksSpacePovertyFindingsBusyCancerWeatherCuresToo BusyFixingParkingBarbecueWorld PovertyParking Space Author:Richard Dawkins
“The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space.” GivingHeartAsksSpaceCryBreathingRules For RadicalsBreathing Space Author:Saul Alinsky
“But the solution to the riddle of life and space and time lies outside space and time. For, as it should be abundantly clear by now, nothing inside a frame can state, or even ask, anything about that frame. The solution, then, is not the finding of an answer to the riddle of existence, but the realization that there is no riddle. This is the essence of the beautiful, almost Zen Buddhist closing sentences of the Tracticus: "For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist."” ShouldDoeStatesBeautifulLyingAsksSpaceAnswersExistenceClearAtheismFindingsSolutionsEssenceSentencesRealizationBuddhistTime And SpaceClosingRiddleZen Buddhist Book:Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes Source: Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes
“One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.” KnowsWayMeanActorsAsksCausesProcessSpaceDirectors Author:Alan Rickman
“That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.” ThinkingWorldFeelsTryingPersonsI CanEndsHardLightEyeEarthAsksWaitingCan DoDarkSpaceInterestingBrainToo MuchWasteEmptySkinsAsk MeStaringShyTunnelsBest PlaceSomething InterestingEyes LookingBeing ShyWaste Of Space Author:Carol Rifka Brunt
“For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a growing that cannot be predetermined or prescribed. I see her and I fill the space with others like her, risking, straining, wanting to find out, to ask their own questions, to experience a world that is shared.” WorldChildrenAsksSpaceGrowingPossibilityBecomingLike HerPredetermined Author:Maxine Greene
“If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space?” IfsMenShouldWritingMightAsksSpaceMadStriveDustBotherSatCosmosSymphonyFutilityMomentaryUnimaginableImmensityInsignificanceMicrobesNumbingTerminationAnomie Author:Stanley Kubrick
“Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus, so marvellously adapted for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to me, and it is. I saw that to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than the wind, and I am.” IfsBelieveWellsWantedAsksSpaceSupportStruggleSawsGreaterAirPossibilityWindMachinesStrongerSpeedConquerGentlemanAviationReceivingPredictionsAdaptedSusceptible Author:Jules Verne