I have the infinite galaxy from '2001' as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant?
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.
I came from the projects. So there were times I'd wake up at night, and my palms would be itching to get out. But no matter where I was, I always looked at the stars, because there's nothing ugly about the sky. That was my escape.
The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It makes you feel small.
Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?
I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.
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.
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.
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