Cool Astronaut Quotes & Sayings

I need some encouragement. I need to ask myself, "What would an Apollo astronaut do?" He'd drink three whiskey sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, then fly to the moon in a command module smaller than my Rover. Man those guys were cool. — Andy Weir

The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic. — Richard Hittleman

[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe. — Dorothy Parker

Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us. — Debasish Mridha

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me. — Vinnie Jones

Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends. — Michael J. Massimino

I kept thinking that it sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine. I was thinking about that as I sank into sleep. — John Green

I think the astronaut job is the best job in the world. I realized when I was older and started applying for it that it's a pretty cool job. — Michael J. Massimino