Famous Quotes & Sayings

Claude Nicollier

It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I have all reasons to believe that it will work fine. But it's a short time. And we also have pushed the envelope here a little beyond what has been done in the past.

Wally Schirra

I have fought the centrifuge ever since. When I visited Star City in Russia, I told them, you guys don't need a centrifuge, they are a waste of time.

Duane G. Carey

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

Claude Nicollier

I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time.

Wally Schirra

In Mercury, you couldn't translate. You could just change attitude. But you were actually flying it like a flying machine in Gemini.

Claude Nicollier

In a way, what we do is not totally different from some of the tasks that will be performed for the assembly of the International Space Station.

Laurel Clark

I'm expecting to have a lot of fun. I'm expecting to be tired at the end. But I'm expecting it to be the experience of my lifetime so far.

Claude Nicollier

The computer that is presently on board is a relatively old computer that has limited capability in terms of its speed and its memory capacity.

James Newman

The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.

Hanya Yanagihara

I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Amy Jones

Kevin wants to change the course of his life and just get out of the industry. It was his decision. It's a life choice.

Richard Applegate

I would try to talk to your employer and see if they would change the investments, ... You might as well try if the choices stink or the offerings are really expensive.

Jeff Murray

Jack Reynolds (the developer's attorney) told me that a simple language change in their development proposal resulted in the need to rezone the site. They changed the language from 'senior living' to 'age-restricted' and apparently, doing so requires a rezoning if they want to develop the site in the way that they propose.

Robert Boswell

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues.

Al Bowman

Just to put that in perspective, a traffic ticket is a summary offense. It happened years ago in college. I think, obviously, Mike has changed quite a bit, as we all have, in these last eight years or six years. I'm sure he's not proud of these.

Barry Collier

Kansas didn't just cut our hair. They shaved our head. They scored 196 or 96 or one or the other on us. It'll take a tremendous effort to slow them down and change that.

Bruce Bochy

Just seeing his name in the lineup changes the flow of the game.

Gabriella Goddard

Just one step could change your life forever.

Jim Gibbs

Jim was a jokester, a great guy and a private pilot. He took flying seriously, that was his passion.

Richard Branson

It already has been through the rigors of flying around the world.

Joker Phillips

He's flying around and looking like his old self.

Kyle Wright

He is just flying by guys this spring and making plays.

Sarah Brightman

I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.

Glenn Engel

If you're flying a propeller when the other guys have regional jets, you will lose market share, especially in a weaker economy.

Keith Morris

I'm flying everywhere in my private jet.

Marilyn Monroe

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

Neil Armstrong

In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

Quincy Jones

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

Larry Harris

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

Bill Fleming

I was always mechanical. In 1978, I started out doing machine work. Now I'm back to my roots.

Richard Dawkins

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

Woody Guthrie

All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

Rod Serling

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

F. Stone

I prefer live dealers, ... but the machines treated me all right today.

Jose Saramago

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Henry David Thoreau

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.