Outer Limits

Famous quotes containing the words outer limits, outer and/or limits:

“No one knows better than children how much they need the authority that protects, that sets the outer limits of behavior with known and prescribed consequences. As one little boy expressed it to his mother, “You care what I do.””
—Leontine Young (20th century)

“Gillian Taylor: You’re from outer space?
James T. Kirk: No, I’m from Iowa; I work in outer space.”
—Harve Bennett (b. 1930)

“The great ship, Balayne, lay frozen in the sea.
The one-foot stars were couriers of its death
To the wild limits of its habitation.
These were not tepid stars of torpid places
But bravest at midnight and in lonely spaces,
They looked back at Hans’ look with savage faces.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)