Gus Grissom Quotes

#1. A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#2. My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

Ang Lee

#3. If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen.

Gus Grissom

#4. To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.

Ray Dalio

#5. The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. If you save yourself for marriage, and then you don't get married, then what you saved isn't worth anything. It's like Confederate money. You're bankrupt, you have nowhere to spend it.
Caroline to Peggy

Elizabeth McCracken

#7. Betty White's Sue Ann Nivens was classic ... She had done so much with that man-crazy character! Betty made every moment count. She still does. I've declared her an American treasure, because she is just that.

Gavin MacLeod

#8. To think is an act. To feel is a fact.

Clarice Lispector

#9. There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn't exist on earth, even on a cloudless summer's day in the Rockies, and nowhere else can you realize so fully the majesty of our Earth and be so awed at the thought that it's only one of untold thousands of planets.

Gus Grissom

#10. How do you expect to get us to the Moon if you people can't even hook us up with a ground station?

Gus Grissom

#11. If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

Gus Grissom

#12. Come to think of it, I don't want to be my friend either.

Julie Buxbaum

#13. Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Alice Walker

#14. It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#15. If you're a movie star, the studios don't want you to act. They just want you to show up and look good and chase girls and have a lot of laughs.

William Friedkin

#16. I can hang with the dudes because I love beef and baseball and driving fast and flirting. I understand where men are coming from, and I'm interested in typically male endeavors. But I can also wear the short skirt and cheerlead.

Elizabeth Banks

#17. Believe me I don't want to set the world on fire I just want to start a flame in your heart

Elizabeth Fama