Homer Hickam Quotes

All my life, everything important that had ever happened had always happened somewhere else. But Sputnik was right there in front of my eyes in my backyard... I felt that if I stretched out enough, I could touch it.

Homer Hickam

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeEyesMy LifeEnoughImportant

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

Stephen Jay Gould

ScienceCreativeInformationActing

Fewer and fewer bars are doing live music. Instead it's more DJs and dance parties.

Sturgill Simpson

LiveMusicDanceDoingMoreDJs

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

Rita Wilson

WomenTimeWomanFeelGetI Feel

We're banned from a whole lot of hotels, and we're running out of hotels we can stay in.

Mike D

OutStayWholeHotelsRunningLot

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

Josh Homme

PeopleThinkExampleGetIdea

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

Dick Gregory

RestaurantWhiteYearsFinally

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Alfred North Whitehead

DogPetYouSameCatBecause

Only al-Jazeera is allowed to report from Zimbabwe, but it is unwatchable. Their Zimbabwean reporter Supa Mandiwanzira was one of Zanu-PF's praise-singers at the reviled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.

Petina Gappah

BroadcastingOnlyReporterZimbabwe

Because I could throw so hard when I got to college, they made me a pitcher. If I had to it all over again, I would have stuck to playing in the outfield. I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

Shemar Moore

PeopleCollegeMeLovedFenceI Can

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.

Sean Penn

LoveTimeStruggleYouNowActor

It's tough coming out of Nebraska, where you're the man and you have to score, to going to the guy that sets the team up and being a role player.

Tyronn Lue

ManTeamToughYouOutUp

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Thomas Tusser

GoodYearPlayChristmasCheerOnce

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