Michael P. Anderson Quotes

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

Michael P. Anderson

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• Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Why
  • Poetry
  • Away

• A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Up
  • Day
  • Dinner

• You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • World
  • Team

• Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Violence

• As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Play
  • Said
  • Rules

• In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Great
  • Done
  • Know

• Shah Jahan, who provedan emperor to be shorter than a lover,who turned a grave into a templewho gave his beloved a place of Godand converted love into a prayer.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Prayer

• He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance and control.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Control
  • Distance

• There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Good
  • Art
  • Enemy

• Hello!Is it me you're looking for?I can see it in your eyes.I can see it in your smile.You're all I've ever wantedAnd my arms are open wide.'Cause you know just what to say.And you know just what to do.And I want to tell you so much;I love you.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Eyes
  • Smile

• Your prudence, my wise friend, allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Wise

• The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • People

• Adieu les monstres! Adieu les saints! Adieu l'orgueil! Il n'y a que des hommes.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• You see, there weren't these magazines like 'Heat' in my day. Always waiting to trip up these pretty girls and make them seem something horrible, something to make them look stupid and small and ugly and disgusting.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Small

• I'm talented, I know what I want, and I believe in myself, and I'm true to myself.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Believe
  • True

• I love to walk into places and have what I think is, like, the prettiest, smartest wife in town. I kind of enjoy that.

  

  James Carville
  • Wife

• I always used to travel without a passport case, and because of it I think I'm four passports in. I bought this small Tumi case to protect my new one, and it works really well, not just for protecting it but also for keeping credit cards and small stuff. I just throw it in my bag when I'm traveling, as opposed to stuffed in my pocket.

  

  Avicii
  • Small
  • Travel

• I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.

  

  Kygo

• I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor

• I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Fall

• The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Like
  • Problems
  • Cultural

• It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

  

  Michael P. Anderson
  • Flying
  • Hanging
  • Rockets