Shannon Lucid Quotes

#1. I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever, the things that you remember most after your flights are the interactions you've had with your crew. Those are the most satisfying things you take away from a flight.

Shannon Lucid

#2. The world was dying. Its gods had to die with it.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. Phone calls didn't seem to be necessary - they just knew things about each other. I didn't want to be the subject of the wordless chatter they shared like dolphins, sending out echoes that bounced off the mountains and into the hearts of each of the other three sisters.

Laura Templeton

#4. I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.

Shannon Lucid

#5. Sometimes people here can get so focused on, Oh, I've got to get a flight, that it becomes the end all of everything. Then they go off and fly a couple of flights and they think, Okay, is that all there is in life? No, it's not. There's a whole big life out there.

Shannon Lucid

#6. When you knit, if you get something wrong and keep knitting, then when you discover it, you have to rip out all those rows of stitching to go back and fix it, Life is like that. Sometimes, it has to rip out all the stitches to go back and fix what's wrong.

Lani Diane Rich

#7. It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out.

Shannon Lucid

#8. The only thing it would be nice to have more of would be M & M's.

Shannon Lucid

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

Shannon Lucid

#10. When I saw how real virtual reality can be, and that we can replace human vision with virtual vision, this can be the ultimate platform.

Brendan Iribe

#11. She heard pa shouting,Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#12. Believe me, I love a good chocolate chip ice cream. I'm not going to go for some lousy version of it. If I'm going to have it, I'm going to have a really good one. I believe in treating yourself occasionally to something.

Christie Brinkley

#13. I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.

Shannon Lucid

#14. If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.

Shannon Lucid

#15. Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.

Najib Mikati

#16. It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.

Shannon Lucid

#17. They touched me all over randomly and I loved it. It felt like they were aching to have me back on their dicks.

Amelia LeFay

#18. When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

Shannon Lucid

#19. You're in charge but don't touch the controls.

Shannon Lucid

#20. The coffee will be ready in a jitney.

Jane Ace

#21. I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.

Halsey

#22. Gia- Give me a good reason why i should see you.
Jax- Beacause, I want you to. Beacause I need to spend time with you. You make me feel ... human. Being with you maked me feel like I'm not a complete piece of shit.

Sylvia Day

#23. It's making life important, making a single life important, rather than having a prescription for the global ills which afflict us.

Bharati Mukherjee

#24. I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

Natasha Trethewey

#25. 'Downward Spiral' felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I'd explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts.

Trent Reznor

#26. New York is a sucked orange.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.

Shannon Lucid