Quotes About Mir

#1. We broke into Mir using a Swiss Army knife. Never leave the planet without one.

Chris Hadfield

#2. I lived at Star City for more than a year ahead of my trip to Mir on May 18, 1991 in Soyuz TM-12. My life at Star City was so remote that learning Russian became my greatest priority.

Helen Sharman

#3. It is impossible to exaggerate how much better the formula es denkt in mir is than cogito ergo sum, which lets us in for pure subjectivism.

Gabriel Marcel

#4. Mir has long since been deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere.

Chris Hadfield

#5. the Russian engineers had taped, strapped and sealed our docking module's hatch just a little too enthusiastically, with multiple layers. So we did the true space-age thing: we broke into Mir using a Swiss Army knife. Never leave the planet without one. As

Chris Hadfield

#6. You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.

Shannon Lucid

#7. abandonment of spiritual values which makes us stand aghast.' The Mir answered: 'Neither could you provide entertainment for your people, nor could you bind them to your person. To call them "my people

Idries Shah

#8. When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go through different phases of adaptation or getting used to the space environment.

Laurel Clark

#9. I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.

Valentina Tereshkova

#10. Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very well.

Michael Foale

#11. Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

Jorge Luis Borges

#12. It is true that we Russians have sent only four doctors into space in forty years of flight, but still I might have had chance to fly to Mir or International Space Station except for one fact. This is that I cannot urinate - is this the right word, Mr. Roth? - I cannot urinate on wheel of bus.

Dan Simmons

#13. I'm sorry, I didn't mean--"
"To speak of it?" asked the K'mir. Diane nodded. "You have to, just to bleed off the poison from the memory.

Tamora Pierce

#14. an Urdu couplet by one of his favorite poets, Mir Taqi Mir: Jis sar ko ghurur aaj hai yaan taj-vari ka Kal uss pe yahin shor hai phir nauhagari ka The head which today proudly flaunts a crown Will tomorrow, right here, in lamentation drown

Arundhati Roy

#15. They called him Mir, which to these people meant the world beneath the world.

Stephen King

#16. There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

Roy Lichtenstein

#17. Anderson isn't qualified to make Frank Mir a sandwich

Chael Sonnen

#18. On Mir, the lights kept going out because it had developed so many electrical problems.

Helen Sharman

#19. You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror.

Anita Roddick

#20. Mir astronaut Jerry Linenger writes in his memoir that he was surprised to find a bottle of cognac in one arm of his spacesuit and a bottle of whiskey in the other. (Linenger was the Frank Burns of space exploration:

Mary Roach

#21. You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.

Aleksandra Mir

#22. My purpose isn't to be confrontational. My purpose is to find out about the world and play myself against it to the extent that it is even conceivable.

Aleksandra Mir

#23. I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands.

Mir-Hossein Mousavi

#24. I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

Aleksandra Mir

#25. There are situations where you can either rise to the occasion or you can feel sorry for yourself. Really that's within your own abilities to make that decision.

Frank Mir

#26. Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.

Aleksandra Mir

#27. Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to dictatorship.

Mir-Hossein Mousavi

#28. Be patient, be diligent. Consistency is the key.

Frank Mir

#29. Perfection's awesome ... So I strive for it every day.

Frank Mir

#30. I would like to apologize to Brock Lesnar, his family, the UFC and the UFC fans for my stupid remarks. I respect Brock, all the other fighters, and the sport of mixed martial arts. I'm sorry that I stepped out of line.

Frank Mir

#31. "Hello" is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is that connections are naturally sprawling all over the place, so I am free to edit any way I want.

Aleksandra Mir

#32. If you wish to speak to Allah, then do dikhr. If you are eager to meet him, then sms while you drive

Wakas Mir

#33. It's a never-ending process to try to make yourself the best person you possibly can.

Frank Mir

#34. I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most exotic faraway places I possibly can, only to find the closest things to me when I get there.

Aleksandra Mir

#35. The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos and anything that they could put their hands on.

Aleksandra Mir

#36. I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.

Aleksandra Mir

#37. People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.

Aleksandra Mir

#38. Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.

Aleksandra Mir

#39. I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.

Aleksandra Mir

#40. Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture.

Aleksandra Mir

#41. I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear disaster zones.

Aleksandra Mir

#42. Try again. Fall flat on your face, get up, try again. Fall on your face, get up, try again.

Frank Mir

#43. I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous of an era when people thought, "Let's finally go to the Moon."

Aleksandra Mir

#44. If I improve just a little bit every day, I'm a happier person

Frank Mir

#45. The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of aviation culture. But really, it only exists to be inserted into a variety of landscapes, to be a catalyst, to offset them.

Aleksandra Mir

#46. I've made a poster at home. You know the iconic image of Che Guevara, the black and red graphic of his face? I think it's the perfect graphic, the best graphic ever made. I cut a Concorde out and put it over his head so it's Che looking up and the Concorde going by. Both are dead, maybe obsolete.

Aleksandra Mir

#47. Religion is the retarded stepchild of philosophy.

Frank Mir

#48. When I'm doing my best is when I'm completely focused ... You completely wipe off any thoughts of the future, there's nothing going on in the past, you're just completely locked in on the moment, and there's no thinking, you're zoned in on this moment in time.

Frank Mir

#49. I try to make that tension almost stupidly overt in my projects, almost ridiculously so. I keep coming back to the same obvious points again and again.

Aleksandra Mir

#50. I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself.

Aleksandra Mir

#51. The closer you get to the light; the greater your shadow becomes...

Mir

#52. In a way I am saying the nation-state doesn't exist, borders don't exist, you can try going anywhere. It is a kind of pre-Internet consensus I always had in me.

Aleksandra Mir

#53. You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.

Frank Mir

#54. Once through this ruined city did I pass
I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked
'What knowest thou of this wilderness?'
It replied: 'I can sum it up in two words:
'Alas, Alas!

Khushwant Singh

#55. The moment right now, it's a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where's the future? We've lost the future.

Aleksandra Mir

#56. There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one.

Aleksandra Mir

#57. I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I work with a steel factory. Why can't I work with the media?"

Aleksandra Mir

#58. I'm working on the intricacies of details of maneuvers that he still doesn't even know the names of.

Frank Mir

#59. The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home to Las Vegas." I think this project could possibly be realized at a very late part of my career. Right now, I don't have the authority, the budget, the credibility.

Aleksandra Mir

#60. A man who wears his heart on his sleeve is a rarity, yet often underappreciated.

Mir Waiss Najibi

#61. I wish I could make the statement that 'the odds were against me but you never quit', It was not true. I wanted to give up.

Frank Mir

#62. I've gotten all kinds of reactions and it's been used in so many different ways.

Aleksandra Mir

#63. National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage set. To activate a stage set you need a drama, an actor to offset it.

Aleksandra Mir

#64. I'm worried about living in a country which in that reaching is right of people who don't run and running is for people who never will reach.

Mir-Hossein Mousavi

#65. In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did cultural anthropology in the graduate school there.

Aleksandra Mir

#66. My blood is no different from that of other martyrs.

Mir-Hossein Mousavi

#67. Fighting is like life. You can do everything to a tee. You can show up and fail. That's no reason to quit.

Frank Mir

#68. "Hello" is pseudoscience. The only smart way to read it is not to believe in it, not to trust it, or to put yourself in it and imagine what's out there that you haven't been told or seen.

Aleksandra Mir

#69. It takes many, many failures to reach success.

Frank Mir

#70. If a Snickers chocolate bar has 50% sugar, wouldn't it be safe to eat the other half?

Wakas Mir

#71. I'm depending on other people to take the work and run. And if they run in so many directions, they sort of cancel each other out. So the meaning is always open.

Aleksandra Mir