Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Williams

I don't know why, but I read that book and I learned about test flight and the history of the astronaut program and that's when I set it as a lifetime goal. I did not like the movie, but I loved the book.

Paul Allen

Our attempt to send the first privately funded astronaut into suborbital space will be the next step in that process. If successful, it will be a major milestone in private space exploration.

Eileen collins

I leave the astronaut job with great memories but also great expectations for our country's future in space.

Jean Chretien

The seven astronauts on board were accomplished women and men of great courage who put their extraordinary skills and knowledge to the service of humankind,

Dmitry Oleynikov

It's hard to teach an astronaut to be a surgeon. I'll be the surgeon and they will be the technologists. Devices such as this could be invaluable on long duration space flights where medical personnel and equipment is sparse.

Richard Zurek

The desire to explore has really always been a part of the American spirit and Mars is a new frontier. Its a place where you could someday send astronauts to do that kind of exploration.

Kevin A. Ford

Life as an astronaut in space is a very interesting one. There are things we all take for granted here on earth, like gravity, that can make things a bit challenging. One of the fun things about getting here is the zero gravity and floating around. But it also makes things very difficult.

Tim Rooney

We had a young team and we had a lot of sophomores who got a lot of quality playing time. We have quickness and speed and have athletes coming. I don't see why Astronaut couldn't be in the state playoffs this upcoming year or the next year.

Eileen collins

I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident

Kazuo Ishiguro

I don't hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who've been friends for many years, and to some extent I feel my worldly success is a bit uncomfortable for them.

Mike Cameron

I was kind of using it as a joke. But I wanted a team with a little bit of character to it, some diversity. I wanted (the Padres) to get some young, talented athletes.

Chad Reitz

I was looking forward to the 2005 season when things fell apart. I ended up in a dispute with my sister (Chanda) and father (Les) about our race team, and we parted ways. It was a bitter ending and there are still a lot of hard feelings.

Jack Rew

Kevin knew quite a bit and he got me into more and more. I liked it and I got to be pretty decent.

John Beilein

Kevin came in here on a mission. I thought we were a little bit out of character at Pitt. We probably tried to do a little bit too much and probably didn't realize what good defense Pitt plays. We took shots we thought were good and they weren't because Pitt guards you.

Shawn Reynolds

Kent pitched a good game. His pitch count started to get high and I didn't want to kill the kid. We talked a little bit before and he was getting a little tired. We can rely on (Weaver) to close it out.

Nicole Sullivan

kick in a little bit of money for the house.

Kaley Cuoco

I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

Rick Adelman

Kenny came up huge in the end. He was the guy they were leaving open and he hit that one shot with a little bit of luck, then the second one was dead center and he hit the free throws.

Pelle Almqvist

It's so new. We haven't played any of the songs live yet, but there's some really good ideas floating around.

Adam Sohn

It's been floating around in one form or another. It is sort of an unfortunate consequence of the freedom the Internet offers.

John Kinsey

The TSE 300 was just like a rudderless ship floating on the waves,

Bat for Lashes

We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

Theophilus London

Im gonna walk super, super slow to when I turn 40 or something. To me, walking and floating slow represents how wealthy you are!

Jim McDarrah

You got your regular human waste that's floating by, but the grease, you go home and you take a shower, and you still smell it. It's awful.

Mark Romanek

If you happen to have a spare $100 million floating around, then you're my producer.

Richard Ashcroft

On the person who stole his guitar: "Whoever you are out there, you can safely take it back to Virgin and nothing will be done. Or you can find yourself floating in the River Mersey.

Cheyenne Trussell

Hopefully, we'll have someone by next week. There are a lot of rumors floating out there, but we're still in our process. We're taking our time, because we want to do it right.

Vance Moss

Here, it's taken for granted ? antibiotics, drainage equipment. There, as a surgeon, we have to use the basics.

Mack Brown

We take for granted now what he does. He does whatever he needs to do to win.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Elizabeth Thomas

Had we not participated in those meetings, DASA might not have granted certification.

Virginia Woolf

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Darren Sinnaeve

In the second half, we played real hard, pressed hard, got up in their faces. In the first half, we relied on 3-point shooting. We had one 2-pointe and seven 3s. Granted it was a zone defense, but we did a lot of standing around.

Bertrand Russel

In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted

Mahatma Gandhi

I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.

David Tennant

I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.

Lawrence Krauss

In science there often aren't two sides. You know, gravity works.

Josh Billings

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

Robin Bell

Over the lakes, the pull of gravity is much weaker, so we know there must be a big hole down there.

Lee Smolin

Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the speed of light has actually increased.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Zig Ziglar

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

Rob Sheffield

On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped while they talk. This makes no sense at all, since Tyler has zero yap-zipping skills.

Ron Atkinson

Zero-zero is a big score.

Toshihiko Fukui

However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

Rick Riordan

No more Lastrygonians.” Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. “Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.

Sarah Palin

Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.

Robert Caro

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

Rick Warren

Life minus love equals zero.

Topher Grace

Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction.

Kevin Smith

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.