Quotes About The Launch Of Sputnik

#1. With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.

Olivia DeJonge

#2. The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.

Russell Smith

#3. I like the sound of 'claps of no sound..

Himanshu Rathore

#4. Behind every successful child with ADHD is a tired parent.

Jim Forgan

#5. For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity. A man-made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride that humans had finally launched an object into space.

David Hoffman

#6. There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily.

Epictetus

#7. Of offering more than what I can deliver,
I have a bad habit, it is true.
But I have to offer more than I can deliver,
To be able to deliver what I do.

Ken Kesey

#8. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring.

Nicholas Sparks

#9. It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

Greg Rusedski

#10. From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of my life. Now, however, my grief has been transformed into a powerful commitment to change. Change is urgently needed in a society where children kill children.

Azim Khamisa

#11. I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.

Cormac McCarthy

#12. As individuals, we have very little say about how our data is being used. I'm not worried about the privacy implications of it so much. But it seems to me that, as an individual, if I'm the one generating the data, I should have some kind of say in how it's going to be used.

Rick Smolan

#13. What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

Eldridge Cleaver

#14. Bacon , Locke , Descartes , Hume , and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.

Allan Bloom