"In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do a certain amount of this research and development work ourselves. We just have to keep our own hands dirty to command the professional respect of the contractor personnel engaged with actual design, shop and testing work."

-- Wernher von Braun

#Dirty Quotes #Moon Quotes #Hands Quotes

“You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.”
“I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that Im acting.”
“You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.”

Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House
“Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.”
“As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.”
“There are moments in your life when you see yourself through someone elseâ€™s eyes, when your only hope of believing youâ€™re capable of doing something is because someone else believes it for you.”

Source : Marc Acito (2009). “How I Paid for College: A Tale of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater (reissued)”, p.54, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in God has, but not atheism. Atheism has never given anyone piece of mind. Atheism has never dried a tear. Atheism has never given an intellectual answer to the creation. Atheism is bankrupt and empty; it's brain dead.”
“I have totally hitched my wagon to the horse of storytelling, and the idea that none of us know why we're born, or why we're gonna die, or what we're planted here, or what's on the other side of the galaxy, or when time began, or when time end. The whole nature of reality is pretty up for grabs, really.”

Source : "Ethan Hawke on Stage Fright, Denzel Washington: "Don't F - With Him, Man" (Q&A)". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2015.

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