Ellen Ochoa Quotes

I hope to continue to inspire our nation's youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.

Ellen Ochoa

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• A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Good
  • Legs
  • Pitcher

• Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Right
  • Spring
  • Determination

• No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Family
  • Law
  • Problem

• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nonfiction

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Art
  • Business
  • Career

• Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • You
  • Better
  • See

• No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Thought
  • Fight
  • Patience

• Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • May
  • Animal

• When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Men
  • Society

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Different
  • New
  • Year

• I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

  

  Barber Conable
  • You
  • Democracy
  • Will

• Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Them

• You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Movie
  • Think
  • House

• I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Good
  • Hate
  • Praise

• In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Like
  • Service
  • Obsessed

• I never stopped dreaming of how to create a wearable to communicate with our thoughts, how to do this at consumer electronics pricing.

  

  Mary Lou Jepsen
  • Thoughts

• Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Passion

• People know who I am. I have less ability to be intimidated, in a sense, than others coming up.

  

  Jon Voight
  • People
  • Up

• Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I hope to continue to inspire our nation's youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.

  

  Ellen Ochoa
  • May
  • Hope
  • Science