Homer Hickam Quotes

When the moon was first visited in 1969, the astronauts brought back a treasure trove of unique minerals. Contained within specimens was an isotope called Helium-3, which turns out to be the perfect fuel for fusion reactors.

Homer Hickam

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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MoonPerfectUniqueBackTreasure

When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.

John Carpenter

LifeLoveAgeCourageRestYou

And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

TodaySocietyWillKnowingFirst

Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique.

Jeb Bush

WorkChildrenSunPeopleStartGrow

My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around it, I played basketball.

Michael Franti

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The use of chance operations opened out my way of working. The body tends to be habitual. The use of chance allowed us to find new ways to move and to put movements together that would not otherwise have been available to us. It revealed possibilities that were always there except that my mind hadn't seen them.

Merce Cunningham

TogetherMindChancePossibilities

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

Stephen King

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We are losing our environment so rapidly.

Stefanie Powers

LosingEnvironmentOurRapidly

As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.

Roseanne Barr

WillPayShootPrimeIsraelJews

When I was younger, I used to look at movie stars with pencil-thin noses and think about a nose job. I've got a grown-up baby nose; it's not chiseled and structured. Then I saw how beautiful Audrey Tatou was in 'Amelie' and thought, 'She's got a nose like mine, and if she can have a baby nose, so can I.'

Martine McCutcheon

StarsBeautifulJobBabyThinkLook

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Miguel de Cervantes

LoveWarSamePolicySame Thing

When the body breaks down, it does not all go at once; it goes piece by piece.

Janine di Giovanni

BodyDownGoPieceBreaksOnce

It's not the part of being a celebrity that's so attractive to me. It's being recognized for your accomplishments and what you've done... becoming closer to what you want to achieve in life.

Brandon Adams

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