Space quotes

“I'm afraid we're running out of room. Two of you will have to sleep on hangers on a hook on the wall.”
Jerry Nelson - Emily 'Ma' Bear

“We must meet this threat with our courage, our valor, indeed with our very lives to ensure that human civilization, not insect, dominates this galaxy now and always!”
Bruce Gray - Sky Marshall Dienes

“I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.”
John Richard Petersen - John - Kid in Classroom

“We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.”
Ed Harris - Gene Kranz

“- Elliott: He's a man from outer space and we're taking him to his spaceship.
- Greg: Well, can't he just beam up?
- Elliott: This is reality, Greg.”
Henry Thomas - Elliott
K.C. Martel - Greg

“- Dr. Kate McCrae: Alex, I'm beginning to feel you want to go with him.
- Dr. Alex Durant: On a glorious pilgrimage straight into what may be the mind of God. I do. I do.”

Yvette Mimieux - Dr. Kate McCrae
Anthony Perkins - Dr. Alex Durant

“Space, you say? Space is a flop. Didn't you know that? An endless junkyard of orbiting debris. Miniaturization, Jack. That's the ticket. That's the edge everybody's been looking for. Who will have that edge Jack? What country... will control miniaturization?”

Kevin McCarthy - Victor Eugene Scrimshaw

“I can't fill up a space shuttle with geriatrics!”
James Cromwell - Bob Gerson

“- Congressman: Now Jim, people in my state keep asking why we're continuing to fund this program now that we've beaten the Russians to the moon.
- Jim Lovell: Imagine if Christopher Columbus had come back from the New World and no one returned in his footsteps.”
Roger Corman - Congressman
Tom Hanks - Jim Lovell

“- Doug Carlin: Is she alive or is she dead?
- Denny: Alright: life, like time and space, is not merely a local phenomenon.”
Denzel Washington - Doug Carlin
Adam Goldberg - Denny

“I have a strange feeling that the normal laws of time and space no longer apply.”
Elizabeth Kaitan - Daria

“The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?”

Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

Some cupcake named "Cane" decided that he didn't need an environment suit. They're still sponging him off the elevator walls.
Norman Chancer - Slater

“If there's any justice at all, the black hole will be your grave!”

Yvette Mimieux - Dr. Kate McCrae

“The only engine we got with enough power for a direct abort is the SPS on the service module. From what Lovell has told us, that could have been damaged in an explosion, so let's consider that engine dead. We light that thing up, it could blow the whole works. It's just too risky. We're not going to take that chance. About the only thing the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ed Harris - Gene Kranz

“Imagine a miracle of space and time. Imagine yourself transported from Earth to Jupiter, four hundred million miles, in just sixty exciting days. Impossible? Not if you're on the new queen of the White Star Lines, the incredible Arcturus.”
Michael Chain - Additional Voices

“- Greg: Well, did he?
- Elliott: He came back, but he's not a goblin. He's a spaceman.”

K.C. Martel - Greg
Henry Thomas - Elliott

“- Otto: Are you telling me you don't have a social security number?
- Beldar Conehead: Correct.
- Otto: Why not?
- Beldar Conehead: I am an illegal alien.”
Sinbad - Otto
Dan Aykroyd - Beldar Conehead

“- O'Niel: Did you do autopsies?
- Lazarus: No.
- O'Niel: Why not?
- Lazarus: In the first place, the company wanted the bodies shipped out as quickly as possible. In the second place, when a person exposes themselves to zero-pressure atmosphere, there isn't a whole lot left to inspect. In the third place, you're becoming a nuisance.”
Sir Sean Connery - O'Niel
Frances Sternhagen - Lazarus