Buzz Aldrin Quotes

Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

Buzz Aldrin

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Quotes to Explore

• When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Young
  • Clothes
  • Brains

• I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Way
  • Me
  • Wrong

• People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Together
  • Brains

• I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Think
  • Where
  • Brains

• I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it.

  

  Karen O
  • Crazy
  • Myself
  • Exploration

• As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Men
  • Young
  • Leaving

• Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Know
  • Party
  • Brains

• It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Exploration

• I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels - I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.

  

  K. Flay
  • Community
  • Learning
  • Like

• With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

  

  Jack Black
  • Acting
  • Satisfaction
  • Brains

• Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

  

  James Rollins
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Age

• The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Work
  • America
  • Brave

• I have worked with many, many talented and dedicated people.

  

  Paula Pell
  • People

• Our journey in going beyond our home planet is a human endeavor, and in the greatest tradition of exploration, past, present, and future spacefarers will continue to be enduring catalysts for inspiration in our quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Future
  • Journey
  • Inspiration

• Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Live
  • Space
  • Rest

• Cooperating in something as visible as space exploration and space flight can only improve relations between the two countries because what happens is, you're working on a common project in a very visible light and so, you're motivated to not have conflicts with each other in other areas. And bringing up China is a good example. In the early '90's, China got serious about wanting to launch astronauts into space and they were actually quite successful in launching many communication satellites. They went ahead and in 2003 they launched their first astronaut into space.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Good
  • Light

• Being good at fashion and beauty and girly stuff has been such a point of insecurity for me; I'm not good at coming up with jokes that make fun of other people for that, because I don't feel like I have a mastery of it myself.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Adventure
  • Unknown
  • Exploration

• The kid that showed up (Maddox), that's incredible. I mean, she wasn't even on our radar. It's kind of interesting with us. Probably the best thing that happened to Temple was that their point guard went down, because then our brains went to sleep and we no longer focused on the guards. It was confusion, at the very least.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Kid
  • Guard
  • Brains

• At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Sky
  • Drawing
  • Mystery

• It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Day
  • Possibilities
  • Spider Web

• I will probably die singing.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Singing
  • Probably

• I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

  

  Erik Larson
  • Cold
  • Secret
  • Shameful

• Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Brains
  • Exploration
  • Horizont