"I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth."

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Source : "Lunar-Golfer Shepard Takes Swings In Tourney". The Orlando Sentinel, p. A2, August 13, 1992.

Alan Shepard

#Moon Quotes #Swings Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.”
“All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.”
“I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.”
“True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.”
“I like to believe that most human beings go about things with a point of view that they're just doing what they feel like they need to do at that time. Sometimes people make bad decisions, but it's not evil, not malicious.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Work is always an antidote to depression.”
“There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right - except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country.”
“I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. It was a lot of work - anything other than Shakespeare was less work. I had a lot of interesting roles, but I don't point to them and say, "That was more interesting than that," because I don't know what the criteria are.”

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