Eileen Collins Quotes

I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.

Eileen Collins

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• Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Musicals
  • Guardian
  • Classics

• In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Great
  • You
  • Depression

• You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Writing
  • Matter
  • Page

• The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Hunting
  • Duck

• I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night

  

  Mae West
  • Night
  • Girl

• When our two souls stand up erect and strong,Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,Until the lengthening wings break into fireAt either curvèd point, - what bitter wrongCan the earth do to us, that we should not longBe here contented?

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Strong

• It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Real
  • Teacher

• Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Time
  • Long
  • Parents

• I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People

• Germany has an established and well-furnished Catholicism, often with employed Catholics who handle the church like a labor union. For them, the church is simply the employer.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Church

• When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

  

  Jim Bakker
  • God

• Before Disney, I did other shows so I was aware of the business. They're all the same in that they're a professional environment. The only difference between a Disney show and other network shows are in the age of the actors you're working with and the age of the intended audience.

  

  David Henrie
  • Business
  • Age
  • Environment

• Respect and a gentlemanly character - those are marks of a Nebraskan.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Character
  • Respect

• I appreciate people who are happy.

  

  David Chang
  • People
  • Happy

• I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.

  

  Jean Craighead George
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Hope

• We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Long
  • Women

• Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

  

  Ellen Glasgow
  • Experience

• When your young and hungry and nobody's ever really accepted you because of your color and class, the hurt of your own family having cast you out in the first place still inside you somewhere, you dance hard because there is no other way to live, and when opportunity knocks its more of an abduction than a housecall.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Live
  • Family
  • Opportunity

• Hero Ride gives everyone the opportunity to get involved with an incredible charity, and the beauty of this challenge is that you can set the boundaries: whether you can manage 10 miles or 100 miles on the ride to Blackheath, Hero Ride is for everyone.

  

  Peta Todd
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge
  • Hero

• Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful quality, in the quality of fierceness and wrath, destruction or perdition.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • Good
  • Live
  • Light

• I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start to finish. It's a life-uprooting time.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Time
  • Journey

• I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Opportunity
  • Command
  • Shuttle