Flying Shuttle Quotes

#1. When your team questions your competence, your ability to influence is shot.

John Fairclough

#2. Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.

Barbara Kruger

#3. I never really have any major resolutions. I do try to be a good person, to be a good mom, to be a good wife, I don't really start the year off on January 1, 'Oh, I am now going to make a big change.' I try every day when I wake up to be good to the people around me.

Heidi Klum

#4. Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#5. After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat.

Mark Kelly

#6. By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?

Burt Rutan

#7. Having three operational vehicles in the fleet affords the shuttle program great schedule flexibility as we move toward flying safely and completing the international space station.

Wayne Hale

#8. Not until the space shuttle started flying did NASA concede that some astronauts didn't have to be fast-jet pilots. And at that point, sure enough, women started becoming astronauts.

Henry Spencer

#9. for everything that was wrong with men.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#10. It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.

Maria Luisa Bombal

#11. In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'

Zooey Deschanel

#12. It's not just about me. It's about all of us accepting one another. We're all different. It's not a bad thing. It's a good thing.

Bruce Jenner

#13. The divine is always abominable.
Houses Under The Sea

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#14. A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.

Linda M. Godwin