Eileen Collins Quotes

I was quite nervous about whether I could throw out the ball and hit it spot on. He didn't even have to move to catch it. I was quite happy.

Eileen Collins

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• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Man
  • Religion

• Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • War
  • Elements
  • Diplomacy

• I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • History
  • Amazing
  • Idea

• The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Band
  • Strength

• 'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • War
  • Political
  • Culture

• SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Time
  • Never
  • Direction

• I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Community
  • Responsibility

• Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Free
  • Fall
  • Foundation

• An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Men
  • Death
  • Enemy

• The right way to deal with a budget problem that was years in the making is by formulating a credible plan to reduce the deficit over time and as the economy is able to withstand the necessary fiscal belt-tightening. That is what President Obama is doing.

  

  Christina Romer
  • Time

• I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

  

  Don DeLillo

• I think it's not misplaced in 'Doctor Who' to have someone who is little bit edgy and maybe a little volatile and dangerous.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Edgy

• Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

  

  Ken Hill
  • Writing
  • Hope
  • Song

• I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • Different
  • Cool

• I personally wouldn't want my second album to sound like my first; it might sound very rocky or hard rock - and that wouldn't be melancholy. So if people think my music is melancholic, then so be it. It's meant to be uplifting, and I'm just basically saying what needs to be said.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • People
  • Music
  • Rock

• We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.

  

  Anna Eshoo
  • America
  • Period

• That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Great
  • Music
  • Car

• I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
  • Past
  • Myself

• For Noah, preaching 120 years without results meant choosing the hard road year after year. Nehemiah, building the wall of Jerusalem, faced constant harassment by enemies from within and without. We cannot honestly, authentically, reasonably and deliberately serve our Lord without our willingness to accept difficulties and inconveniences.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • Road
  • Years
  • Enemy

• Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.

  

  Anna Gavalda
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Meet

• Twitter does have an effect on everything - things you put out there, they are out there for good.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Good

• I was quite nervous about whether I could throw out the ball and hit it spot on. He didn't even have to move to catch it. I was quite happy.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Happy
  • Move
  • Nervous