Massimino Astronaut Quotes & Sayings

I'm not the person I used to be. I never was. — Marty Rubin

Really?"
"Yeah. I see that asshole every day when I look in the mirror. I don't need a picture of him."
"Thank you," she said enthusiastically. — J.M. Darhower

Being who you are is a lot easier than faking it. — Adam Lambert

There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization. — Werner Herzog

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

He said a fortuneteller had told Mum's fortune once, and after that, she's never gone out on sea again. It was years ago, but she never has. Not once." said Conner
"What did the fortuneteller say?" I asked
"Dad wouldn't tell me. It must have been something really bad though."
"maybe the fortuneteller said that Mum would die by drowning." I suggested.
"Don't be stupid Saph. A fortuneteller wouldn't ever say that to someone. You're going to drown, that'll be ten pounds please — Helen Dunmore

Too narrow a definition tends to complicate any endeavour. — Steven Redhead

Been working and working But I still got so terribly far to go. — Oscar Brown Jr.

I will use my mind, not just my regular brain lobes. — Peter Bognanni

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 had always been interested in the space program, and I didn't know if I could be an astronaut like I'd dreamt about when I was a little kid - to me it sounded kind of silly, someone grow up to be an astronaut - but, when I was in my 20s, I thought maybe I can get a job with NASA or a contractor, do something with the space program. — Michael J. Massimino

Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216 — Fatema Mernissi

The love they had for each other seemed to me very different from the love I saw between the parents of the few friends I had. Their love seemed more intense, more tumultuous, more passionate. Whenever they thought no one was watching they locked eyes, and they had to reach out and touch whenever they passed one another. — V.C. Andrews

My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together. — Michael J. Massimino

For some reason in today's society, people look up to football players and you have a voice. And it's because of that voice you have the opportunity to impact people's lives. — Tim Tebow

They put me with a blind monk who taught me how to massage and to see again with my fingers. Now my fingers tell me more than my eyes used to, I think. — James Clavell

I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because I've done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that's the next thing that's coming out. — Christy Romano

I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interest in being an astronaut. I started taking those steps, and then I realized it would be the chance of a lifetime. It would be a dream life: not just a job, but the whole life. — Michael J. Massimino