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Peggy Whitson Quotes

I knew I wanted to be a part of NASA in any case, and so I chose my goals in education to be consistent with working at NASA even as, you know, a scientist.

Peggy Whitson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: astronaut
Nationality: american
Birth: February 9, 1960

Topics

Education Goals You NASA Know Knew

If I don't run for president, we'll all be OK.

Joe Biden

Run President OK

Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens.

Traian Basescu

Confused Wonder Nation Ethnicity

You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.

Roger Daltrey

Job You Singer Being Keep Stamina

We need to save the country.

Ron DeSantis

Country Need Save

The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Health Decision Wait Face Care Will

Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school at six, graduate in their late 20s, and get their first proper jobs in their 30s. Adolescence can go on a long time. It is rare for anyone to achieve responsibility before their 50s.

Luke Harding

Time Responsibility School Start Go

Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.

Jay Leno

Home Fight Baseball Safety Hurt Say

I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York.

Jason Mitchell

Birthday New York Night New Same

I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-school Romanian bowl haircut from the 1980s. And I was very, very small. I was always the tiniest kid on my street and in my classes at school... The gym was the one place I didn't have to worry about feeling awkward for being so petite.

Dominique Moceanu

Eyes School Hair Small Haircut Gym

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

Craig Ferguson

Myself People Looking Now Okay Here

I was not a big comic-book reader.

Brad Bird

Big Reader

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.

Susan Orlean

Home Son Moment Day Tears Born