Schirra Homepage Quotes

#1. The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#2. The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed.

John Newton

#3. Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

Anne Rice

#4. Dark with excessive bright.

John Milton

#5. Contrary to the Post's reporting, a significant number of stevedores held college degrees.

Rawn James Jr.

#6. Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Bruce Lee

#7. Yes, only a fool would have slipped into her deepest reaches and grasped the woman within. The whole of her so fine and glorious, he had reverently fondled each nuance of her mind.

Mallory Rush

#8. Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting

Bruce Willis

#9. If you have a universe that was just the mirror image of the one we know about, then in fact, presumably it would have right-handed amino acids. That's why I'm only half kidding when I say there is a guy on the other side of the universe with his heart on the right hand side.

Ronald Breslow

#10. No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

John F. Kennedy

#11. From what I've come to know about you, my dear, you're a lady who embraces every venture with enthusiasm. I would have been very disappointed if you'd gone out on that court and not played the way you're apparently capable of playing.

Jen Turano

#12. I'll make my own magic' - A.D.Y.Howle

A.D.Y. Howle

#13. The key reason why we are richer than our ancestors is that these ancestors have bequeathed us buildings, factories and machines that have given us a high living standard to start with. Driven by irresponsible policy makers, America's present generation is consuming the nation's capital.

Kurt Richebacher

#14. Falling in love for the first time, and then the heartbreak of having it end, is difficult, but I don't think it would ever hurt as much as when my mother was killed in the boating accident. I feel a part of my heart has already been broken, and that place is reserved for mother.

Natasha Gregson Wagner