Chris Hadfield Quotes

For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.

Chris Hadfield

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• So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

  

  Sally Ride
  • You
  • Space
  • First

• I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Home
  • Weird
  • Moment

• Silence is my dignity.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Silence
  • Dignity

• I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Idea
  • Wrong
  • Conversation

• Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Home
  • Water
  • Garden

• A lot of people want to discredit me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Leader
  • Say

• My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Mind
  • Father
  • Parents

• Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Experience
  • Myself
  • Years

• Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, seeing a guy and not knowing if you want to tell him how you feel yet. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic.

  

  Candice Glover
  • Guy
  • Feel
  • Romantic

• My mother, actually, is a therapist.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Mother
  • Actually
  • Therapist

• I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Say
  • Holidays
  • Exploited

• If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Up
  • Country
  • School

• The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Look
  • Difficult
  • Distance

• It takes a lot of energy to teach.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Energy
  • Teach
  • Lot

• YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Problem
  • YouTube
  • Traffic

• On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Nice

• People have told me to change it over the years, but my dad is always saying, 'Never change your name!' My middle name is O'Hara, so it's a pretty epic name. Emily O'Hara Ratajkowski.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.

  

  Matt Gonzalez
  • Time

• You'll realize the transformation is not for you alone. You'll learn that you're here to use this gift to shine light on the dark world around you. You become a miracle worker in the world. As you begin to understand how love is crucial to the healing of the world, your miracle work will take on a whole new meaning.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • World
  • Work
  • Light

• I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • United States
  • Saying
  • I Can

• For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Friend
  • Memories
  • Forget

• For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.

  

  Chris Hadfield