You know when you have a scanner and you only see what’s touching it.
— Lily
Why is it that some microbes can survive the intense radiation and vacuum of space? These conditions don’t naturally occur on Earth. Maybe those bugs are telling us that their ancestors survived those same conditions in space.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, “The Immortals,” Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Man, what are you doing with a gun in space?
— Chick, Armageddon
Who having consider’d the body finds all its organs and parts good,
Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body understands by subtle analogies all other theories.
— Walt Whitman, “Kosmos”
The thwarting of communication primarily because neither of the parties was aware that each inhabits a different perceptual world.
— Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension
A new piece of furniture.
— Lily
Summer squash!
— LTT 4B trainees
I know that squeak anywhere.
— I
Maybe nobody cares but Stacy.
— J
Three periods a game.
— Ross
Flower.
Don’t be sorry, be yourself.
— Yasmeen
Bye
Easy liven’.
— Uriah Heep, “Easy Liven’”
That tumbled.
— The Rural Alberta Advantage, “Frank, AB”
Bro.
— Phi
how
only a biochemical or two keeps me
from becoming the world’s biggest lightning bug.
— Dean Young, “Luciferin”
There are more closets than people.
— Current resident of the Falcon’s Nest
That was the first time I’d ever been put in front of the immensity of the world.
— T$
Art.
— Daniel Heyman