"If anything, when you're up in space and you're inside a space ship, which is your home, and without which you would not survive, you know that Earth is your home. This is the only place you can return. In fact we're very meticulous. Part of our job is to maintain the spaceship. If we apply the same kind of model to Earth maybe we'd have a different outlook."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

Julie Payette

#Home Quotes #Different Quotes #Earth Quotes

“A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.”

Source : Praise for "Into the Silence" by Wade Davis, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.
“Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand him, provided that he has done his best to be intelligible. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry.”
“I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.”
“Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.”
“Hi, Miss Alice What kind of dreams do you see with your eyes of glass? Do they fascinate you?”
“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
“The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity. He takes snapshots, makes notes and records impressions on tablecloths or newspapers, on backs of envelopes or matchbooks. Why one thing and not another is part of the mystery, but he is omnivorous.”
“I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size.”

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