Chris Hadfield Quotes

When you look out the window of a spaceship, you see entire countries, vast swaths of continents. One turn of the head covers what once took thousands of years to traverse at ground level.

Chris Hadfield

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• The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Women
  • Psychology

• Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • She
  • Age

• What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Looking

• Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • You
  • Say

• I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Like
  • Buying
  • Instant

• Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Book
  • Ignore

• If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • You
  • Always

• I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Business
  • Want
  • Audience

• I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Different
  • Couple
  • Back

• Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Way
  • Always
  • Rebellion

• Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked by one lip corner pulled up and in a dismissive sneer.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Happiness

• Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • War
  • Military

• As is always the case when you are with the actual human being behind the celebrity or legend, there is something human about the man or woman that makes things less than myth.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Celebrity
  • Legend

• See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • World
  • Forever
  • Perspective

• I've done a lot worse than jump off piers, son. Like throw a television out the window.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Done
  • Son
  • Jump

• Putin is a one-horse country.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Country
  • Horse

• Basically, I think that Gotham is all of our urban nightmares and fears made into reality. Instead of hearing footsteps from behind you while you walk down the streets, turning around and finding nobody there, there is somebody there.

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • Reality

• The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Die
  • Speak

• I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

  

  Valerie June
  • Judge
  • Songs
  • Boss

• I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great,

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • World
  • Great
  • Band

• When you look out the window of a spaceship, you see entire countries, vast swaths of continents. One turn of the head covers what once took thousands of years to traverse at ground level.

  

  Chris Hadfield