Astronomy quotes

“Coal mining may be your life, but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam

“- May McIntyre: Do the people in India get to watch it?
- Mayor Bob McIntyre: Yeah, but all on the one telly.”

Genevieve Mooy - May McIntyre
Roy Billing - Mayor Robert 'Bob' McIntyre

“All astronomers are amateurs. When it comes to the heavens, there's only one professional.”
Claude Rains - Sir John Talbot

“Professor Farnsworth-I’m sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Philip J. Fry-Oh. What’s it called now?
Professor Farnsworth-Urectum.”
Billy West - Philip J. Fry
Billy West - Professor Farnsworth

“Polaris. You see it? It’s the most important star in the sky. If you ever get lost, it’ll help you find your way.”

George Clooney - Augustine

“Our two-year mission to K-23 has us returning with more answers than questions. Can it sustain life? Yes. Can it expand? Yes. Could it be home? Yes, it could. Every question
we set out to answer, we did, except the one that lingers in the air. Why is it so quiet?”
David Oyelowo - Adewole

“- Connie Conehead: I think I'll have some Tang.
- Prymatt Conehead: Ah Tang, the drink astronauts took to the moon.
- Beldar Conehead: Astronauts to the moon?”
Michelle Burke - Connie Conehead
Jane Curtin - Prymatt Conehead
Dan Aykroyd - Beldar Conehead

“- Oberhauser: Think about it: so many years up there, alone, silent, building momentum until it chose to make its mark on Earth. A huge unstoppable force.
- James Bond: Except it did stop, didn't it? Right here.”

Christoph Waltz - Oberhauser
Daniel Craig - James Bond

“- Jack: There's only two times when that kind of thing's okay: in prison where it's a substitute and guys in space.
- Mike: Guys in space?
- Jack: Well, not on purpose. They just float into each other.”

Shawn Hatosy - Jack
Zak Orth - Mike

“- Palmer Joss: What are you studying up there?
- Ellie Arroway: Oh, the usual. Nebulae, quasars, pulsars, stuff like that. What are you writing?
- Palmer Joss: The usual. Nouns, adverbs, adjective here and there.”
Matthew McConaughey - Palmer Joss
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“- Stanley: What are you doing?
- Eugene Morris Jerome: Astronomy. I have to bring in a report tomorrow.
- Stanley: Let me know when she gets to the Milky Way.”

Brian Drillinger - Stanley
Jonathan Silverman - Eugene Morris Jerome

“- Al Burnett: Not everyone at NASA is a hotshot college genius. The guy I most admire is from a one-horse town in Ohio.
- Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: And what does he do?
- Al Burnett: Tomorrow he's gonna walk on the moon.”
Patrick Warburton - Al Burnett
Kevin Harrington - Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell

“- Glenn Latham: Everything's fine.
- Al Burnett: Except we lost Apollo 11!
- Glenn Latham: Oh, except for that.”
Tom Long - Glenn Latham
Patrick Warburton - Al Burnett

“- Vincent: A year is a long time.
- Irene: Not so long. Just once around the sun.”
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman
Uma Thurman - Irene Cassini

“I'm not an astronaut. I'm an engineer. What am I'm doing here?”
John Lithgow - Dr. Walter Curnow

“I am very pleased with the results of the astronomy test. Although, there's still some confusion about Pluto. While its planetary classification is still uncertain, it is definitely not Mickey's dog.”
Grace Phillips - Miss Landers

“- Gordon Cooper: You know something, Gus? I got me a new house, new furniture. Got me $25,000 a year on a magazine contract. Got me a Corvette. Got free lunch from one end of America to the other - and I ain't even been up there yet.
- Gus Grissom: Yeah, I noticed that.”

Dennis Quaid - Gordon Cooper
Fred Ward - Gus Grissom