Michael P. Anderson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It looks like the future's really bright.
-- Michael P. Anderson

#Looks
When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.
-- Michael P. Anderson

#Flying #Rockets #Hanging On
I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'
-- Michael P. Anderson

#Stars #Space #Fiction
Fortunately, I got called down to NASA for an interview. And one thing led to the next, and one day I got that call. I've been here about seven years now and am really enjoying it.
-- Michael P. Anderson

#Years #One Day #Next
I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.
-- Michael P. Anderson

#Airplane #Pilots #Air Force
If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.
-- Michael P. Anderson

#Fun #Mean #Air
As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.
-- Michael P. Anderson

#Dream #Way #Different
Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.
-- Michael P. Anderson

#Growing Up #Kids #Writing
Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.
-- Michael P. Anderson

#Teeth #Attention #Caught

Tut, Tut, looks like rain
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
I don't look at myself as suffering.
Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.
Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.
Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Michael P. Anderson famous quotes

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