Flight Deck Quotes

#1. I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

Sally Ride

#2. He didn't know what his measly five birds would be able to do, but they'd be ready to do it if he had to personally launch them into space with a rubber band tied across the flight deck.

Evan Currie

#3. The image of Jupiter, with its ribbons of white cloud, its mottled bands of salmon pink, and the Great Red Spot staring out like a baleful eye, hung steady on the flight-deck projection screen.

Arthur C. Clarke

#4. My job during the EVAs, the spacewalks, is to act as the inside coordinator. I remain on the aft flight deck of the shuttle, and I act in a manner to help the gentlemen outside, my fellow crewmates, who are performing the EVA tasks.

Alan G. Poindexter

#5. He noticed Sandys wide-eyed expression as she took in the flight deck, but there was no time to explain what all the controls were for. That, plus he didn't know what ask the controls were for. 'what are ask these controls for?' asked Sandy.
'no time to explain' said Hal quickly.

Simon Haynes

#6. Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.

Steve Wozniak

#7. Every birth is a getting to know.

Paul Claudel

#8. Maybe when water yearned for fire / it invented waves / so one day they might become flames

Ibrahim Nasrallah

#9. Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.
[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]

John Green

#10. I don't think it's patriotic to put on a flight suit and prance around on the deck of an aircraft carrier looking for a photo op. We have a president of the United States who did not do his duty to take care of America. If you're patriotic, you do your duty.

Wesley Clark

#11. I wanted to be ready.
I had thought I was ready.
I really believed I was ready.
That is, until the milk came.

Kathryn Michaels

#12. In my life are many windows
and many graves.
Sometimes they exchange
roles:
then a window is closed forever,
then by way of a gravestone
I can see
very far.
(Hebrew-to-English translation by Rabbi Steven Sager)

Yehuda Amichai

#13. I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

Caitlin Moran

#14. If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world

Mick Foley

#15. To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

Bertrand Russell

#16. With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Chris Bohjalian

#17. Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.

Brian L. Weiss

#18. People like Pete Peterson, the former secretary of commerce and Blackstone and titan of Wall Street, etc., has been writing books for years about the debt and deficit.

Mario Cuomo

#19. To betray is to act against, I just haven't acted at all - China Sorrows

Derek Landy

#20. The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrow currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#21. The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

C.S. Lewis