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Wally Schirra Quotes

Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.

Wally Schirra

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: astronaut
Nationality: american
Birth: March 12, 1923 - May 3, 2007

Topics

Women Best Step Down Know Ladder

If you're playing a character that someone doesn't like, that's okay, but if you're voicing your own opinions, they actually don't like you!

Jennifer Coolidge

Character Someone Opinions You Okay

Look at my track record: All of the big hits we created in Holland worked globally.

John de Mol, Jr.

Look Big Track Created Record Hits

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

Robert Graves

Time Money Me Writing Talking Wrong

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

John Wooden

Character Reputation More Your Than

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

John Ruskin

Beautiful World Remember Useless

There's lots of charity stuff that I can do. There are actually a million things to do here, but it would be very hard for me to stop going overseas, because I've been doing that for longer than I've been playing in the WNBA.

Sue Wicks

Me Charity Doing I Can Stop Hard

A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.

Steven Pinker

Confidence Police Government People

President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

Jay Inslee

Focus Red President Reason Resources

I was a born rock n' roll sax player.

Clarence Clemons

Born Rock Roll Player Sax

One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.

Boris Johnson

Together Society You Try One Thing

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Politics Religion Government I Am

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.

Kenneth Koch

Work Time Identity Look Early Mean