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Chris Hadfield Quotes

To be on my very first spacewalk, to be outside, and to have contamination in my suit to the point that I couldn't see in either eye - that, I think, would cause some people to lose control.

Chris Hadfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: astronaut
Nationality: canadian
Birth: August 29, 1959

Topics

People Control Eye Think Lose See

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

Jesse Eisenberg

Guilty Way Pleasures Just Wired

I've always wanted to be in comedy... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.

Anna Akana

Yourself Parents Growing Up Comedy

I want all my pain to count for something.

Ann Jillian

Pain Want Count Something

My favorite band of all time is The Clash. The thing I love about The Clash is they started out as guys who could barely play three chords. They dabbled in reggae, punk, rap, jazz. They came to a sound that could only be defined as The Clash. It was impossible to say what it was. I admire them for that.

Michael Franti

Love Time Impossible Play Say Jazz

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

Michael Behe

Science People World Elegant Natural

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

John Turturro

Work Best Quiet Personal Hard Tone

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

Steven Moffat

People Writing Comedy You Know

He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.

Simon Callow

People Said Always Voices Cartoons

I have got lots of silver medals, from Delhi in 2010 and London in 2012, so it would be nice to pick up some golds, and the Commonwealth Games is a great place to start.

Lizzie Armitstead

Great Start Place Be Nice Nice Up

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

Janice Dickinson

Woman Man Me Mouth Will Never

Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance.

Douglas Conant

Trust Excellence Job People Energy

I shouldn't have been diagnosed as swiftly as I had been. I shouldn't have recovered as fully as I did. I shouldn't have been able to write a book that did as well as it did, and that book should never have been made into a movie. Yet, here I am.

Susannah Cahalan

I Am Book Never Write Here Well