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“We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.”

Ifs Should Enough Demand Remains Critics Orbit

Author:Kingsley Amis

“For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on that list would be the fact that we exist in a financial universe that is subject to massive gravitational pulls from states. States tug at us. States bend us. And, tirelessly, states seek to determine our orbits.”

Ifs States Facts Would Be Film Universe Fiction Subjects Reader Science Fiction Distance Shining Financial Determine Lists Visible Massive Cosmic Epic Introduction Orbit

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.”

Humans Art Vision Territory Denied Orbit

Book:Max Bill

Source: Max Bill

“It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.”

Art Behinds Beauty Function Mathematics Aesthetic Orbit Diagrams Quadratics

Author:Robert L. Devaney

“Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job.”

Has Beens Earth Jobs Lows Stuck Budgets Kicks Exploration Phases Astronaut Nasa Orbit Realisation

Author:Paul Davies

“Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.”

Computer Rockets Microsoft Orbit Ibm

Author:Bill Gates

“Like a satellite in orbit, Apple is perpetually falling. It just happens to miss Earth every time.”

Happens Earth Fall Missing Apples Orbit Satellites

Author:Horace Dediu

“Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.”

May Beautiful Records Ready Training Letters Instruments Appearance Essays Missiles Orbit Pads Self-importance

Author:Susan Sontag

“I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.”

World I Can Stories My Own Draws Accounts Response Honestly My Own Life Orbit

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.”

Firsts Children Nations Walking Moon Our Children Dear Your Children Indigenous Iranian Star Gazing Orbit Satellites

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.”

Earth Picks Speed Orbit Looking Down

Author:Robert Crippen

“We were only on orbit a little over two days so we had no adverse effects from being weightless...”

Littles Two Effects Two Days Orbit Adverse Adverse Effects

Author:Robert Crippen

“You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.”

World Hours Half Around The World Orbit

Author:Robert Crippen

“My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.”

Space Development Various Focused Facility Transportation Orbit Inexpensive Mit

Author:K. Eric Drexler

“Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living quarters, laboratories and everything needed for the comfort of its crew, who would be relieved and provisioned by a regular rocket service. (1945)”

Would Be Science Space Materials Needed Comfort Stations Quarters Crew Constructs Laboratory Rockets Relieved Orbit

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.”

Way Fall Universe Dog Color Falling In Love Features Attachment Ritual New Ways Orbit

Book:Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs

Source: Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs