“A satellite has no conscience.”
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist
On receiving the "Family of Man" Award (1964)
Satellite
Remember Two Things (1993)
“A satellite has no conscience.”
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist
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.”
R.S. Thomas (1913–2000) Welsh poet
"Here"
Tares (1961)
“Who knows why some satellites come by and by while others disappear into the sky.”
Ben Folds (1966) American musician
"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.”
Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961) Defected Communist spy
Source: Cold Friday (1964), p. 315
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)
“You are all just perfect little satellites
Spinning round and round this broken Earthy life”
Sara Bareilles (1979) American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
"Satellite Call"
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)
Christopher Monckton (1952) British public speaker and hereditary peer
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. <br class="br">Attributed
James Clavell (1921–1994) American novelist
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