
“A satellite has no conscience.”
On receiving the "Family of Man" Award (1964)
Satellite
Remember Two Things (1993)
“A satellite has no conscience.”
On receiving the "Family of Man" Award (1964)
“I have nowhere to go.
The swift satellites show
The clock of my whole being is slow.”
"Here"
Tares (1961)
“Who knows why some satellites come by and by while others disappear into the sky.”
"Michael Praytor", The Sound of the Life of the Mind (2012).
Song lyrics, With Ben Folds Five
“The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.”
Source: Cold Friday (1964), p. 315
1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)
“You are all just perfect little satellites
Spinning round and round this broken Earthy life”
"Satellite Call"
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)
Attributed by Adam Morton http://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-sceptic-clouds-the-weather-issue-20100201-n8y3.html, reporting in The Age, about a speaking engagement in which Lord Monckton implied that NASA had sabotaged a Taurus rocket in order to prevent the Orbiting Carbon Observatory from reaching space.
Attributed
Hélène Delambre
The Fly (1958)
Context: I get so scared sometimes. The suddenness of our age! Electronics, rockets, earth satellites, supersonic flight, and now this. It's not so much who invents them. It's the fact they exist. … Everything's going so fast, I'm just not ready to take it all in. It's, it's all so quick