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.

Mark Fulghum

They were confronted by three men. The man was hit over the head and they were robbed.

David Horowitz

There was England. And then there was the United States. If the pacifist betrayers of the West had not been so powerful in the 1930s and Western governments had confronted Hitler early, 70 million lives would have been saved. Americans would do well to remember this now.

Sam Buell

They're going to be confronted for the first time with lots of detailed questions that they didn't face before because the questioners didn't know all the facts yet.

John Tate

Raymond had a .22-caliber rifle with him when he confronted Betancourt, and shot him.

Ken Starr

After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.

Henry Hyde

The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions. Suffice it to say, Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr. Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.

Henry Hyde

The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions, ... Suffice it to say, Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr. Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.

Rod Graves

To not prepare for (injuries) is like going into a game not thinking about special teams. You know that at some point, you are going to be confronted with it, so youd better be ready.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

Chris Cleave

Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.

Earl Wilson

Saying 'Gesundheit' doesn't really help the common cold - but its about as good as anything the doctors have come up with.

Eartha Kitt

Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

David Walliams

I am a huge fan of 'Doctor Who.'

Barry Bostwick

People have a tendency to cast me more as lawyers and doctors and just rich guys, rich assholes basically, a lot of rich assholes. That's what I'm normally seen as, you know.

Ato Essandoh

Another benefit of going to Cornell is that 90 percent of your friends are doctors.

JoAnn Manson

The perception that these hormones protect the heart was so strong that many doctors were prescribing it to prevent heart disease.

Cecile Richards

At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.

Carre Otis

I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Charles Studd

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.

Alan Moore

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever." The Joker

Chinua Achebe

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Edith Wharton

But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.

Eddie Izzard

I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I'm out the door. But that's the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.

David Icke

Humanity is at a fork in the road and we can no longer stand there staring at the map pondering which direction to take. It is hardly a choice, after all. One Road leads to a global fascist dictatorship that would control every aspect of our lives, including our thoughts. The other will open the door to freedom and potential on a scale never experienced in the 'world' as we have known it. Hard one, isn't it? A choice between a prison and a paradise?

Derek Jacobi

They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.

Frank Hadden

There is no point in engaging in speculation if Tom may be able to return to rugby in the future, because such speculation just increases the frustration for Tom,

Ken Kendrick

We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback. He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future.

Ken Kendrick

We're extremely pleased to have Stephen be a Diamondback, ... He's an engaging young man and a player we'll hopefully see in the major leagues in the near future.

Patch Adams

They had every reason to be sad and angry, yet people were instantly friendly, engaging and giving.

Scott Shields

This policy is an unconstitutional infringement to engaging in free speech.

Wade Pogany

It's about engaging students with technology and using technology as a tool to teach.

Greg Evans

It is that eternal struggle of good versus evil, that is so engaging to the mind of man and woman alike.

Jolanda Schreurs

It's an opportunity for a parent to know enough to start engaging and maintaining conversations.

Tom Kelleher

I've always seen historical interpretation as a learning experience, just as much as high school teaching. It's an engaging way to explain history to people.

Luke Nosek

Ultimately Halcyon needs the greatest scientists and engineers in the world to succeed in its mission.

Irwandi Yusuf

There is no need for non-combat engineers to help out in the reconstruction process.

Fernando Alonso

The motivation is even higher than ever this year because we have the number one and two in the team and all the mechanics and engineers are working with much more interest than last year.

Jonathan Todd

The only plan professor Barrett has presented was in January, when he proposed that he work with Microsoft engineers to improve the documentation.

Bob Garrett

Engineers can start with our sample programs, which range from 'Hello World' to a Web server and network connection.

James Gosling

We want to get engineers to think about something else.

Steve Jobs

Great engineers are a huge multiplier.

Stephen Malkmus

Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.

Carl Guardino

Many of those founders were not only engineers but immigrants.

Alan Ball

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

Barry Commoner

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

Barry Commoner

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Rachel Carson

Those who love and free nature are never alone.

Hanno Langenhoven

Unlimited growth in a finite environment is impossible.

William Shakespeare

Nature does require her times of preservation.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

The majority of autists - as well as their parents - seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.

Shawn Russell

We started hitting our outside shots. That opened things up on the inside.

David Hasselhoff

Wherever I can go, I hit the water, whether it's the ocean, or in L.A. it's Zuma Beach in Malibu; I just hit the water.

Stan Rosenstein

Where the rubber is really going to hit the road is Jan. 2 in the local pharmacies.

Joe Vitt

There is no question. It's a point of pride for the players, for the coaches, for our families. When a man's butt hits the ground, a man better get back up again. We were kicked down last week, and we've got to rise.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.

Jason Schenker

Whether we hit it today or next week, I don't really think hitting $50 is going to give us a downturn.

Jeff Davidson

Watching 'Old Boy' is like getting hit in the mouth.

Jeff Davis

When it comes right down to it, I'm not going to say that we didn't execute. We didn't hit our shots.

Mark Osiecki

Tom will make a big hit when we need it, and he'll take a big hit when we need it. We need him to be on the ice for us to be successful.

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Chris Carmack

I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.

Chingy

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

Chita Rivera

It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good about.

Chip Conley

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether thats as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

Eddie Murphy

I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

Eddie Murphy

The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

Dean Cain

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

Daymond John

I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy

Deborah Burger

Nurses are required to be patient advocates and do no harm.

Linda Maxwell

The nurses and staff at the hospice were the most wonderful people. I can't say enough about how they made my parents stay dignified.

Susan Collins

They struck me as not the typical request.

Christine Arron

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.

Antonia Bird

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

Rease Watson

One thing that has struck me the most is the hundreds of (electricians) out here. They're working their tails off. They're from all over the place.

Judy Garland

He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking.

David Hernandez

I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed,

Ken Jury

It immediately struck me as being ambergris -- it couldn't be anything else.

Patti Smith

I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.

Terry Jorde

This has struck a nerve. Thousands of them.