Chiao Chiao Quotes

#1. Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.

Leroy Chiao

#2. I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all ... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know.

Charles B. Rangel

#3. If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

Susie Orbach

#4. Space is very unforgiving business

Leroy Chiao

#5. I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.

Leroy Chiao

#6. When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!

Napoleon Bonaparte

#7. The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.

Leroy Chiao

#8. My husband, Gabriele, is a musician, and I love music, so you can bet it's a really important part of our home entertaining repertoire, even if it means Gabriele making a really good playlist for a dinner party.

Debi Mazar

#9. There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.

Leroy Chiao

#10. Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.

Walter Winchell

#11. I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

Leroy Chiao

#12. As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.

Leroy Chiao

#13. Miss Lilly." Mr. Kan stood up and solemnly shook her hand. "When there is such a large gap of years between two friends, we Chinese call it wang nien chih chiao, a friendship that forgets the years. It's destiny that brings us together. I hope you will always think of me and Teddy as your friends.

Ken Liu

#14. I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

Leroy Chiao

#15. One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.

Leroy Chiao

#16. History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

James A. Garfield

#17. But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.

Leroy Chiao

#18. There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful.

Leroy Chiao

#19. Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is.

Leroy Chiao

#20. I have created hours upon hours of different music over the years that the general public has never heard. Maybe one day I'll release them all in one big package, but we'll see.

Phil Anselmo

#21. One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.

Leroy Chiao

#22. I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well.

Leroy Chiao

#23. Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.

Leroy Chiao

#24. My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life - to stay fit and feel good.

Leroy Chiao

#25. Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.

Leroy Chiao

#26. This is one I know you hated when you heard it and it's worse because you know that I deserve it

Drake

#27. I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.

Leroy Chiao

#28. I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.

Leroy Chiao

#29. Parting and death are both terribly painful. But to keep nursing the memory of a love so great you can't believe you'll ever love again is a useless drain on a woman's energies.

Banana Yoshimoto

#30. Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.

Leroy Chiao

#31. I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

Leroy Chiao