Alan Shepard Quotes

I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

Alan Shepard

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• After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Living

• Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Home

• Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Love
  • Medicine

• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Think
  • Always
  • Anchor

• A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • People
  • Live
  • Pretty

• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Garden
  • Apple

• Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Going
  • Alien
  • Hospital

• What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.

  

  Yuna
  • Job
  • Artist
  • Forget

• The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • World
  • Difficult
  • Finishing

• It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • You
  • Say
  • Wear

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • Movies
  • Made

• After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • May
  • Business
  • Start

• I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Audience
  • Moved
  • Active

• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Very
  • Tastes
  • Eclectic

• When you work so much in between starts, you realize how long the season is. It's exciting to look at and be a part of, obviously. It's almost like a challenge, to see how, from start to start, things may feel a little differently.

  

  Matt Harvey
  • Work
  • Long
  • May

• Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• I'm obsessed with reality TV anyway - I use my knowledge of that stuff to make jokes on Twitter and Facebook to get more people to sign up to be fans.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • People
  • Up
  • Reality

• What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Page

• I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon.

  

  Alan Shepard
  • People
  • Moon
  • Achievement