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

• Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Agreement

• 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

• I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option - it isn't.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Family

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

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Hunting
  • Duck

• Social policy that reunites father and child must always confront itself with the question, 'Are we paying dads to stay, or to go away?' If a single mother receives more money when the father isn’t around than when he is around, there will be fewer fathers around. The government will become her substitute husband.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Father

• 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
  • Strong
  • Earth

• 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

• The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Character

• 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

• It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.

  

  Leslie Poles Hartley

• When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Opportunity
  • Cool

• Playing in the NHL, it's a great job, it's a great life to live, and we just want to have the opportunity to do that. That's going to come from our hard work and dedication to the sport. As far as being black players in the league, obviously it's great.

  

  P. K. Subban
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• 'Tum Jo Mile' came as a surprise. Vivek and Kumaar sir, who has written the song, sent me the track just to listen. I was in London at the time for my world tour. I heard the song, and I fell in love with it instantly.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Time
  • World
  • Song

• If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Respect

• 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