Ron Nessen Quotes

#1. Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change ... the list goes on and on. I think nearly every scientific field benefits or could benefit from satellite imagery analysis.

Sarah Parcak

#2. PhD is possible at any age!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. You're saying the mysteries are worth examining, even if they're too big to be understood. That maybe they're bound to be too big to understand, but that doesn't take anything away from them, and in fact just adds to their beauty.

Lauren Myracle

#4. Never allow impatience to prevent you for reaching your full potential.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. If you like
I'll be furious flesh elemental,
or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like-
I'll be extraordinary gentle,
not a man but - a cloud in trousers.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#6. Love is every type of relationship that you think of ... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of.

David Bowie

#7. Nobody believes the official spokesman ... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

Ron Nessen

#8. I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.

Michael Holroyd

#9. The free-range chickens and Priuses are great, but they alone aren't adequate tools for creating a truly different society and ecology.

Rebecca Solnit

#10. It was a strange feeling, to want to throw something at him and protect him from dangerous flying objects at the same time.

Tarun Shanker

#11. The whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

Margaret Halsey

#12. A weed is but an unloved flower.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#13. I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic

J.G. Ballard