Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leroy Chiao

I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well.

Leroy Chiao

But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.

Leroy Chiao

Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is.

Leroy Chiao

The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.

Leroy Chiao

Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.

Laurel Clark

We're doing a multitude of different scientific experiments on orbit on things that are only possible to be done in the space environment.

Duane G. Carey

And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of.

Duane G. Carey

Rendezvous day is the third day of our mission, and that's a big day for us.

Duane G. Carey

So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him.

Greg Fealy

Very few graduates have that combination of skills ... many students are shying away from language courses and travelling to places like Indonesia or Malaysia because of the terror warnings.

Michael Walsh

Ultimately, the course needs to be self-sustaining. I think we're headed in the right direction.

Karl Rove

The outcome of that debate will shape the course of human events,

Gary Shaw

When you've been going to places for 35 years, of course you think about it being your last time. Each track meet has something you remember.

Lexi Thompson

I'm not a huge shopper. I love looking good - obviously, on the golf course I like looking sharp, that's for sure. I'm just not into knowing brands.

Jack Ferguson

When he got fired, of course he was shocked. I don't think he was ever given a reason for it. They packed him up and tossed him out. If they had just paid him, he probably would have just gone his way.

Ron Gruwell

Until we have staff look at new course options, we will be setting kids up for failure.

Mariska Hargitay

Of course everyone says they hate baby talk, but mine was not annoying.

Carol Nelson

Whether or not (the WASL) has demonstrated its effectiveness yet, I think it's still too new to rate, ... But it's important to stay the course and not lower standards, and let the tool do its work.

Alan Paton

Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

Al Pacino

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

Andrew Coates

Venus provides an extreme test for the atmospheric physics models that we have for Earth.

Kevin Baines

Venus has a lot of lessons to teach the Earth about how things could go awry.

Allan Paull

Ultimately we hope to be able to use it to launch satellites into low-Earth orbit.

David Mitchell

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

David Sze

Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them.

David Suzuki

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

David Suzuki

For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature

Byron Katie

When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.

Michael Boulware

The possibility to play this game is very exciting and very motivating. The play I got hurt on, I played a little tentative, and I think it made me realize that if you played tentative you're going to get hurt.

Lexi Thompson

I love my sponsors. They make things so much fun for me. We do really fun and exciting things, so I always have a blast. It doesn't ever seem like work.

Noel Fisher

I'm just looking for good work. I just really love acting, and I'd like to jump on something that's really exciting for me.

Cassandra Peterson

[I] go to the Golden Globes, the Grammys, all the awards shows. Just stuff you would never get to do as a regular person were things that were really exciting for me.

Karen Johnson

We want everyone to come out and take part, because it's going to be a very exciting event, one in which families can participate together.

Nick Harkaway

Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method.

Kurt Barnard

Watch out for this company. It's telling us something. While most retailers sold indistinguishable products, Sharper Image sells exciting and unique things that people want to buy.

Donna Brazile

Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Martin Broughton

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

Raymond Hack

We are proud of the performance of our team in the first leg.

Anthony Chukumba

When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.

David Tudor

I persist in performing.

David Hockney

I've realized that I can do performances.

Neve McIntosh

I haven't done any 'Fringe' shows since I was about 17. Then I performed with my youth theatre in a show where we all had this old-fashioned make-up on and giggled through our lines.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.

Charles Caleb Colton

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

Alan Watts

We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.

Howard Eisen

Wait until you see the science that is going to come back from this mission. It's going to know your socks off.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.

Dmitri Mendeleev

When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.

Dmitri Mendeleev

If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.

Dave Barry

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.