Physical Space Quotes

We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.

One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when we began to utter the big thoughts in big words. You want room for your thoughts to get into sailing trim and run a course or two before they make their port. The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Some days, I just love the physical space of the theater. I love theaters; they are heartbreakingly beautiful to me.

There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream.

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

What's odd about the selfie stick is that while it might faintly improve the photo you'll post on Facebook, it definitely makes you seem like a shallow, awful clown to any bystanders in the humdrum physical space you're posing in.

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

You may be on land, yet not in a garden.

The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

There is not the Newtonian universe deployed throughout the parsecs and kiliocosms of physical space and the interior mental universe. They are the same thing.

You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.

First, an angel is spiritually present at whatever place in physical space happens to be occupied by the body on which it acts. It can be present at that place without leaving Heaven which is its spiritual residence.

People need space to survive.

I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air.

I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.

Color, to continue had to occur in space.

The users space is lived - not represented or conceived.

There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.

One cubic foot less of space and it would have constituted adultery.

From a mathematical standpoint it is possible to have infinite space. In a mathematical sense space is manifoldness, or combinations of numbers. Physical space is known as the 3-dimension system. There is the 4-dimension system, the 10-dimension system.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.