"I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft."

Thought, Flying

48

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft."

Exlpore more Thought quotes

"I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Thought, Feeling

"While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing."

Tom Berenger, American Actor

Thought, People, Beginning

"We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed."

William Whewell, English Philosopher

Thought, Thoughts, Being, Reflection

"I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer."

Marguerite Young, American Author

Thought, Man, Woman, Writer

"Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts."

Max Muller, German Educator

Thought, Thoughts, Deep, Memory

"I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good."

Brian May, English Musician

Thought, Pretty

"Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?"

Billy Joel, American Musician

Thought, Career, Pretty

"I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

Thought, Actor

"The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve."

Buddha, Indian Leader

Thought, Speech

"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

Voltaire, French Writer

Thought, Thoughts, Words

Explore more quotes by Leroy Chiao

"I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission."

Space exploration

"The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth."

Earth

"There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant."

Food

"I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader."

Leadership

"But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together."

Work

"Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is."

Career

"Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature."

Nature

"There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful."

Education

"Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both."

Experience

"I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so."

Nation