Alan Shepard Quotes

The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.

Alan Shepard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: astronaut
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 18, 1923 - July 21, 1998

Topics

SpaceMeStartBuildExcitementUp

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

Jim Rohn

OceanBeginningLaughYouGoAsking

I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.

Joan Jett

SayYearsWhereLike

I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.

Andrea Riseborough

TimeI AmGetJustFanRead

I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

Andy Serkis

ChildrenParentingThinkNowI Think

I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!

Amanda Righetti

WorkChangeGreatTimeJobYourself

I have never planned my career. I chose those films with which I could relate myself. But if given a chance, I would love to do the kind of roles Meryl Streep has done.

Sridevi

LoveMyselfChanceCareerDoneKind

If I could eat whatever I wanted every day, I would have Domino's pizza with pasta carbonara inside every slice. And at night, I would have Neapolitan ice cream until I felt absolutely toxic. And then I would drift off telling myself, 'It's going to be O.K... It's going to be O.K. you're going to train in the morning.'

Robert Downey, Jr.

MorningMyselfDayPizzaNightYou

Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of flaky - New Agey, you know? Which is partly why I'm suspicious of that sort of thing. I'm skeptical of any spiritual practice that doesn't involve other people and doesn't involve some sort of consistent tradition.

Mary Karr

MotherSpiritualPracticeParents

We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open source, so you or someone technically savvy you know can verify what the software is doing.

Mitchell Baker

ControlCareSomeoneDoingYouKnow

You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last.

Jay Alan Sekulow

OpportunityDayYouNowFirstFail

People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to be the person to say, 'Yeah, that's really O.K., as long as he's motivated to want to read.'

Jon Scieszka

SonPeopleCrazyLongPersonWant

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

Dee Dee Ramone

TimeTiredCoolThoughtNewRock

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