James Van Allen Quotes

#1. You're my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

James Van Allen

#3. I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried.

Merle Haggard

#4. I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.

James Van Allen

#5. I'm used to getting reviews. I try not to read much because you'll always focus on the bad ones and not remember the good ones, so it can be a negative thing for a performer.

Sam Trammell

#6. I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

James Van Allen

#7. A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.

James Van Allen

#8. Tough break today. Looks like I gotta go back and rememorize a couple hundred pages of the usga rules book!

Jeff Overton

#9. Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding.

Sivananda

#10. I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.

James Van Allen

#11. Now that we are born, let us live in a trance.

Arvind Parashar

#12. Part of having a social media strategy is being smart about whom you follow. Ask yourself who is important to your company or brand. Figure out who needs to know you exist.

Michelle Phan

#13. Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

James Van Allen

#14. We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.

James Van Allen

#15. Heroes are dead.

Dan Sofer

#16. Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

James Van Allen

#17. I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.

James Van Allen

#18. You know, I love traveling and I love being exposed to different cultures, but really it's the people that I've met along the way, not the places I've been, that have opened my eyes.

Amy Adams

#19. And now we're lethal, infected with D'Evils

Jay-Z

#20. We all have the right to choose our own gods, and worship them. No matter even if it is a stone, an animal or a piece of cake.

M.F. Moonzajer

#21. The winner is the one who believes in victory more.

Novak Djokovic

#22. A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Sam Houston

#23. Real revenge is making something of yourself.

Gerard Way