October Sky Jim Hickam Quotes & Sayings

Remember that if you don't prioritize your life someone else will. — Greg McKeown

She looked up, her face pink as a Christmas ham. "You ever try chasing down a car?" she gasped. "I'll one-up you. I gave Scott my hot dog and asked if he'd go to Summer Solstice with me." "What does the hot dog have to do with anything?" "I said he'd be a wiener if he didn't go with me." Vee wheezed laughter. "I'd have run harder had I known I'd get to see you call him a wiener. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Once you accept the fact that life isn't fun, you'll be much happier, his mother said to him. — Paul Bowles

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun ... — Jim Morrison

Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do what the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you. — Ayn Rand

The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre. — John Berger

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche. — Beck

When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of security, creating an even more dangerous situation. In some cases, excesses migrate beyond regional or national borders, raising the ante for investors and governments. These excesses will eventually end, triggering a crisis at least in proportion to the degree of the excesses. Correlations between asset classes may be surprisingly high when leverage rapidly unwinds. — Seth Klarman

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. — George Orwell