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John M. Grunsfeld Quotes

A lot of people get home from work and sink into a good chair, the place in their life where they feel most comfortable. I get that comfort in space, the place where I most feel like I belong.

John M. Grunsfeld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: astronaut
Nationality: american
Birth: October 10, 1958

Topics

Life Work Good Home Space People

I grew up on, and kind of came of age, during the grunge movement and was introduced to Neil Young and Bob Dylan and grew up on that path.

Jim James

Age Path Young Kind Movement Up

I've always despised the hippies.

John Lydon

Always Hippies Despised

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

Aneurin Bevan

Leader Political Party Know Kind

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Jean de La Fontaine

Fear Shame Everyone Faults Cure He

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

John Petit-Senn

Courage Kite Wind True Like Higher

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Stella Benson

Family Bond Strangers Alive Jokes

When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker.

Spike Jonze

Plans Old Years Filmmaker Ever Had

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

Tom Clancy

Someone You Bad Will Matter Who

Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place in the editing room.

Rithy Panh

Writing Process You Place Editing

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

Miriam Makeba

Music People World Think Say Want

I am glad I have given my family the life I wanted for them. That is my responsibility.

Diego Costa

Life Family Responsibility I Am Glad

What I would say to anybody facing any life challenge or disease is that that is courage - to choose life, to keep looking at what's good.

Debbie Ford

Life Good Courage Challenge Looking