Middlewood Locks Quotes & Sayings

Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight. — Kobo Abe

I don't like it, but I'm a person, thank goodness, who can do what I don't like. — Henry James

It is snowing and death bugs me
as stubborn as insomnia. — Anne Sexton

We visit the Launch Control building, where on one wall of the seventies-style lobby are hung the mission patches of every human spaceflight that has ever been launched from here, 149 to date. Beneath each mission patch is a small plaque showing the launch and landing dates. Two of them - Challenger's STS-51L and Columbia's STS-107 - are missing landing dates, because both of these missions ended in disasters that destroyed the orbiters and killed their crews. The blank spaces on the wall where those landing dates should have been are discolored from the touch of people's hands. This would be unremarkable if this place were a tourist attraction, or regularly open to the public. But with the rare exception of Family Days, this building is open only to people who work here. In other words, it's launch controllers, managers, and engineers who have been touching these empty spaces with their hands, on their way to and from doing their jobs. After — Margaret Lazarus Dean

Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma. — Scott Westerfeld

If we weren't so dirt-conscious, we would obtain adequate vitamin B12 from soil, air, water, and bacteria, but we meticulously wash and peel our vegetables now - and with good reason, as we can't be sure our soil is not contaminated with pesticides and herbicides. — Sharon Gannon

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode

Never, ever ever ever ever give up. — Winston Churchill

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral, Of Beauty — Scott Westerfeld