Neil Armstrong Quotes

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

Neil Armstrong

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• We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Politics
  • Seeing

• Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Enemy

• But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Link

• A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Crisis
  • Agency

• If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • God
  • Me
  • Looks

• Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.

  

  Iman
  • Soul
  • Stop
  • Myself

• Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Win
  • Gold
  • Fans

• I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Community

• There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.

  

  Barry Took
  • People
  • Really
  • Old

• I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Important
  • Way
  • Healthy

• The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Long
  • Opportunity
  • Care

• We're changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women's wrestling, forever. Forever. And we're at the start of it? That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable! Unbelievable.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • People
  • Women
  • Forever

• When I write, I want something to sound good itself.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Good
  • Want
  • Write

• The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that stars have planets. So the likelihood that there is life somewhere else to me is just absolutely there.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Universe

• XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: 'Have you listened to such-and-such?' They're not impressed.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Children
  • Death
  • Band

• I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it's been a chance to apply the things I've learned more directly. I also took some Folklore and Mythology classes, and I think that a lot of that influenced me.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Lost
  • Chance

• Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Woman
  • Child
  • Birth

• Nine days after an attack on the United States, this tiny clique of intellectuals Neocons was telling the President of the United States...that if he did not follow their war plans, he would be charged publicly with a 'decisive surrender' to terrorism.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War

• At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Career

• I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it's kinda cool. Like I've created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff.

  

  Jason Silva
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Universe

• I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all.

  

  Jerry Doyle
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Wall

• Even if Donald Trump's successful, it's the beginning of the end if this rhetoric persists in the Republican Party.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Party
  • Beginning
  • End

• Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

  

  Neil Armstrong
  • Bird
  • Flying