Homer Hickam Quotes

For a country like ours that needs to stay ahead of the world or go under, we must do great, ambitious things - like going to the moon - to survive.

Homer Hickam

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1943

Topics

GreatMoonWorldSurviveCountryGo

How I draw and how I leave things out is parallel in some ways to the non-verbal soundscape in radio stories.

Jessica Abel

RadioOutLeaveThingsStoriesSome

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

John F. Kennedy

IntelligenceNew YorkThinkNewHot

I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

John Oliver

AngryMemoryPeopleBlurYouKind

Not talking about mental illness is killing people. We need that to stop.

Mauro Ranallo

PeopleTalkingStopMental Illness

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

Anita Desai

DisappointmentBookMotivationWrite

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

Jeffrey Eugenides

LifeMyselfConfusedMy LifeWrite

I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.

Tom Stoppard

WishRememberPlayWriteI WishHow

You will never see President Bachmann step one toe out of the United States and apologize for this country.

Michele Bachmann

StepYouCountryWillNeverSee

Until I got the weight off, there was something inside of me that said, 'You hate yourself.' You get too depressed over the weight to really work on this. For whatever reason, I had to take the weight off to do this work.

Lisa Lampanelli

WorkHateYourselfMeYouSaid

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.

Joshua Sylvester

LifeShadowsSayThey SayOutLamp

In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.

Juan Williams

EffortBorderImmigrationSecurity

I am so thrilled to carve out a few minutes to write that I grab it whenever I can.

Deborah Harkness

I AmI CanWriteOutMinutesGrab

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