Ockels Quotes & Sayings

We are all astronauts on spaceship earth — Wubbo Ockels

Portland wasn't my home; Jamie was. There is nothing in this world that feels as good as being completely at home. Not even chocolate. — Catherine Gayle

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after — Mona Simpson

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. — Janette Barber

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. — James Laughlin

Methought I saw my late espoused saint. — John Milton

Space is so close: It took only eight minutes to get there and twenty to get back. — Wubbo Ockels

We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach. — Ken Starr

being normal is unnormal but being imperfect is PERFECT! I know I was different and perfect — Monica Petra

Even revolution, particularly
revolution, which claims to be materialist, is only a limitless metaphysical crusade. But can totality claim
to be unity? That is the question which this book must answer. So far we can only say that the purpose of
this analysis is not to give, for the hundredth time, a description of the revolutionary phenomenon, nor
once more to examine the historic or economic causes of great revolutions. Its purpose is to discover in
certain revolutionary data the logical sequence, the explanations, and the invariable themes of
metaphysical rebellion. — Albert Camus

I think I can relate to this guy [Psycho Sam] that ended up ... This desire to go off the grid and live on his own and didn't trust anyone or anything and I guess the thing that saved him in my head was that he had a great sense of humor. — Rhys Darby

You don't need magic to be invisible in a town like this. Being poor works just the same. — C.M. Hayden

Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there. — Truman Capote

Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land. — Simon Van Booy

There's only one earth. And there's no spare. — Wubbo Ockels

Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle. — George Eliot

If there are seeds of courage living in all of us, waiting to bloom, words are the sun and the water that cheer on those seeds to their fullness. — Annie F. Downs