Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Kopp

Throughout history, when societies have been faced with big challenges, they've put their best people on them. During the Space Race, American and Russian scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts pushed the bounds of what was possible and landed men on the moon.

John Bridgeland

They struck us as articulate, capable. These kids wanted to be doctors and nurses and engineers and astronauts and then they hit the schoolhouse door and they're confronted with an environment which is not inspiring, not engaging and often disorderly and unsafe.

Frank Bauer

There's a ham rig on the ISS, and the astronauts love talking to students when they pass over schools.

Keith Cowing

The space station was sold to Congress for decades as a lab to do this kind of broad-based research. Now they've started gutting the station just when it is at the point of being able to do all things it was supposed to do. That leaves the purpose of the space station as something for astronauts to fix.

George H. W. Bush

This is a tragic day for the families of the astronauts and a tragic day for science,

Ellen Stofan

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.

Dana Rohrabacher

On my watch, I've been privileged to peer into the future of dynamic citizen astronauts routinely flying to and from the heavens.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

Martin Rees

Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth in the space shuttle and the International Space Station.

Carol Vorderman

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

Elaine Donnelly

We have never seen so many female soldiers. They are mothers. Some of them are single mothers ? great numbers of them. And we are sending them to fight our wars in a way that is unprecedented, not just in American history, but in history around the world.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Alexa Von Tobel

When I was planning LearnVest, everyone told me I had to talk to Ann Kaplan, one of the first female partners at Goldman Sachs. Within five minutes of our meeting, she totally got the idea - and by the time I left, she was a seed investor.

Tyga

There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality.

Camille Paglia

There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.

Camille Paglia

Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.

Carl Jung

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.

Diego Rivera

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

Nathan Barankin

Whenever the medical profession steps into these social policy issues, things get really complicated in a hurry. Quite frankly, that's the reason San Quentin has never required medical professions to be involved.

Leroy Hood

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

Kevin McCarthy

We know Africa does not have the same medical treatments as we do.

Miles White

This acquisition complements our strategy in medical products.

Bob Wise

so that people can get to the appropriate medical provider.

Michael Sheridan

This is our second acquisition in 2 1/2 years in the medical area.

Aretha Franklin

I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

Charles Barkley

There's no medical term for what I've got.

Khloe Kardashian

I pulled back on the divorce because there is no rush for it. For medical decisions and a ton of other things, it's just smarter that it's put on hold.

Joe Laszlo

Together, they emit 1,500 pounds of mercury annually.

Tom Allen

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response

David George

Negotiating with de Valera.... is like trying to pick up mercury with a fork.

D. James

Mercury is from atmospheric sources for the most part.

Nico Tortorella

I worked at the Northlight Theater in Skokie, and the Mercury Theater on South Port. I actually did a show there for three years, called 'Over the Tavern.'

Henry Spencer

Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.

John Deacon

I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.

Alan Shepard

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

Chesley Sullenberger

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

Bo Jackson

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Dave Barry

Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top.

Craig Ferguson

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

Donal Logue

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

Duane G. Carey

And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it.

Adolf Galland

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

Amelia Earhart

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Arnold Bennett

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

C. S. Lewis

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

Agnes Macphail

We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Bill Watterson

Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

Edwin Land

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

Bjarne Stroustrup

How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.

David Guetta

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

David Deutsch

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

David Deutsch

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.