Quotes November 26, 2019

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.
Anjelica Huston,
actress, director, producer
 
 
 
 
Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don’t know how far we can go.
Bernard Malamud,
writer
 
 
 
 
Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.
Gustave Flaubert,
writer
 
 
 
 
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills,
operatic soprano
 
 
 
 
A perfect life is a contradiction in terms.
Swami Vivekananda,
Hindu monk, teacher of philosophy
 
 
 
 
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
Charles Mingus,
jazz musician
 
 
 
 
The world is possibility if only you’ll discover it.
Ralph Ellison,
writer
 
 
 
 
In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.
Jhumpa Lahiri,
writer
 
 
 
 
You’ll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.
Julia Child,
chef, cookbook author
 
 
 
 
The biggest threat to our future is people not feeling like the institutions that are supposed to be taking care of them aren’t.
Gen. John Kelly,
former White House chief of staff
 
 
 
 
Technical challenges don’t hold NASA back, but political challenges do.
Jim Bridenstine,
NASA administrator
 
 
 
 
The first thing people do when they have extra money in their pocket is buy protein.
John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods
 
 
 
 
Reusability is the holy grail of space.
Tim Hughes,
senior vice president and general counsel, SpaceX
 
 
 
 
Policy needs a process. … If you just make up a policy, it will end up being defined by unintended consequences instead of intended consequences.
Andrew Card,
former White House chief of staff
 
 
 
 
A ticket to space cost $250,000, which is expensive in Earth terms, but not that expensive in space terms.
Stephen Attenborough,
commercial director, Virgin Galactic
 
 
 
 
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
Elizabeth Lawrence,
gardener, garden writer
 
 
 
 
For I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
Nicolaus Copernicus,
early modern astronomer, mathematician