Douglas Brinkley Quotes
I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.Douglas Brinkley
Quotes to Explore
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
Hans Hofmann -
There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
Vicki Lawrence -
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
Fiona Apple -
Religion is induced insanity.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
Irvine Welsh
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I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.
Lajos Kossuth -
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn -
If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 years old.
Faye Resnick -
I talk too much.
Vin Diesel -
Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.
Damon Lindelof
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Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
Warren Zevon -
I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
Laura Fraser -
reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads-they couldn’t be fair if they tried.
Harper Lee -
For how long is it a duty to study the Law? To the day of death.
Maimonides -
Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
Quintilian -
Good-night; ensured release,Imperishable peace,Have these for yours,While sea abides, and land,And earth's foundations stand,And heaven endures.
A. E. Housman
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
I will build you a castle with a tower so highIt reaches the moon.I'll gather melodies from birdies that flyAnd compose you a tune.Give you lovin' warm as Mama's oven.And if that don't do,Then I'll try something new.
Smokey Robinson -
For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.
Jim Lovell -
The bay-trees in our country are all withered, And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven. The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth, And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change. Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap; The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other to enjoy by rage and war. These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
William Shakespeare -
I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.
Douglas Brinkley