"There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back."

-- Alan Shepard

#Inspiration Quotes #Moon Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“Better use of space, improving the insulation, getting more daylight into the buildings, reducing the energy consumption of the air conditioning and heating systems, making sure that the internal air quality is good, that we have increased natural ventilation opportunities in the mid seasons. You know these are some of the things we can do.”

Source : "Q&A: Ken Yeang interview". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.
“That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.”
“We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.”

Source : Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)”, p.303
“It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for. ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.”
“Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving!”
“When the end comes, I hope itâ€™s as strange as that. I hope that the sky tears open and the world is washed with colors that weâ€™ve never seen before.”
“It is horrific even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day”
“It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?”

Source : "Alan Cumming: King of off-message". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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