All Quotes

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.
‐‐ Chris Hadfield

As an astronaut, when you're getting ready to go out of that hatch, you know that's the pinnacle of both your career and your life. The view completely blows you away. The real challenge is getting past the excitement and getting focused and down to work.
‐‐ Thomas Marshburn

As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
‐‐ Mae Jemison

As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we don't understand. There's a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.
‐‐ Andrea M. Ghez

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
‐‐ Sam Harris

As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.
‐‐ Alain de Botton

As an athlete and as a woman, I get my confidence from playing sports because it shifts your focus from what your body looks like to what your body can do for you. That's what we all should be doing. It shouldn't be about looking perfect.
‐‐ Venus Williams

As an athlete, confidence makes me more competitive and helps me perform better.
‐‐ Marlen Esparza

As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work.
‐‐ Michael Johnson

As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
‐‐ Magic Johnson

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.
‐‐ Michael Chang

As an athlete, I've always been very proud to represent the United States.
‐‐ Michelle Kwan

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.
‐‐ Michael Johnson

As an athlete, my first Olympic experience was Sydney 2000. I remember seeing people getting medals, and I thought, 'Wow, that's where I want to be.'
‐‐ Nick Dempsey

As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner

As an athlete, success is not just about winning; it is about working hard and giving it all you have. I have always taken one match at a time and worked hard; when I succeeded, I worked further on the aspects of the game which worked for me; when I failed, I listed out my weaknesses and worked on them.
‐‐ Rohan Bopanna

As an athlete, there are advantages being with a team and getting regular physio.
‐‐ Paula Radcliffe

As an athlete, when you have a desire and a want to do something, you fight for it. And it doesn't matter how long your journey is; it's whether you give up or don't.
‐‐ Troy Dumais

As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.
‐‐ Abby Wambach

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
‐‐ Katarina Witt

As an athlete, you'd better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.
‐‐ Ricky Williams

As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.
‐‐ Katarina Johnson-Thompson

As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
‐‐ Barry Bonds

As an athlete, you're brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you're going to start a meal, you're going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, 'I eat until I'm full and leave the rest.'
‐‐ Michael Strahan

As an athlete, you really see a lot of the Instagram paradigm. Where it's just like, 'Me! Me! Me!' When you realize you can 'Give, Give, Give,' it's very interesting, and it's good.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.
‐‐ Beth Brooke

As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.
‐‐ James Badge Dale

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.
‐‐ Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter.
‐‐ Michael Fassbender

As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I make sure people know it's out there, they can make up their own minds whether they want to read it.
‐‐ Tibor Fischer

As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
‐‐ Gayle Forman

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

As an author, it's a strange process to watch your novel turned into a movie. It's tremendously exciting but somewhat voyeuristic; after all, novelists are rarely involved in the process.
‐‐ Marcus Sakey

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
‐‐ Nathaniel Philbrick

As an author on a corporate press, you have a lot less control over the finished product. I figure if I spend a couple years writing something, I want to be able to decide what the cover looks like and how it's going to be presented.
‐‐ Joe Meno

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.
‐‐ Bernhard Schlink

As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.
‐‐ Bernhard Schlink

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
‐‐ Melissa de la Cruz

As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.
‐‐ Jonathan Stroud

As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi

As an author, you spend a lot of time by yourself in a room making clicky noises. It gets pretty insulated. You realize pretty early on in your career that even if this goes well, you could spend all your life in a room alone. Unless you pick projects that are going to get you out doing things, you're not going to actually live your life.
‐‐ Christopher Moore

As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.
‐‐ Laura Amy Schlitz

As an avid hunter, outdoor enthusiast, and life member of the NRA, I understand the importance of protecting the right to keep and bear arms.
‐‐ Jeff Duncan

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.
‐‐ Tipper Gore

As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.
‐‐ Michelle Malkin

As an East Asian looking at America, I find attractive and unattractive features. I like, for example, the free, easy and open relations between people regardless of social status, ethnicity or religion.
‐‐ Lee Kuan Yew

As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.
‐‐ Christina Romer