Neil Armstrong Quotes
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
Quotes to Explore
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In 2012, I was over the moon to be there, especially as it was our home Olympics. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I just wanted to take everything in.
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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.
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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
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For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
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I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.
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I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
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I lost the ball in the moon.
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I don't do really well in cities, which is crazy given that we're flying in and out of these major cities every week.
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In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.
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Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.
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All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?
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The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.
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I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.
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I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.
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I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something.
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It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.
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If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.
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You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more.
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I had wanted to be a Calvin Klein model since I was 17. Marky Mark in his Calvin Kleins was the epitome of male sexuality. That was something I worked for.
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What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.
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A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
