Ben Bova Quotes

A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time.

Ben Bova

• Race
• Americans
• Military Power

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Day
  • Happen
  • Late

• You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  

  Major Owens
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Exercise

• With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Job
  • Integrity
  • Protect

• I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Television
  • Box
  • Had

• A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • School
  • House

• This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Art
  • Movie
  • Me

• I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Never
  • Now

• Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Change
  • Shoes
  • Without

• We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Parents
  • Attention

• Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Beautiful
  • Funny
  • Yourself

• There's always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Always
  • Missing
  • Opportunities

• I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Think
  • Always
  • Answer

• I had bags of energy as a kid.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Energy

• In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • Occupation
  • Mars

• I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Problem
  • Painting
  • Color

• The United States was the first country to recognize Israel in 1948, minutes after its declaration of independence, and the deep bonds of friendship between the U.S. and Israel remain as strong and unshakeable as ever.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Strong
  • Deep

• I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Feel
  • Overcoming

• Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,And not to chance as others do,That I was born of Christian race,And not a Heathen, or a Jew.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Christian
  • Chance
  • Born

• A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time.

  

  Ben Bova
  • Race
  • Americans
  • Military Power