top of page
.png){kind=small}
"When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!"
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Media quotes
"There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen."
Author Name
Personal Development
"So sad "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" the series ended open and it was made in 2011 and it ended in 2011!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you're nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that...They want to read what's out-of-the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic. They want a story; they want to be captivated and what's typical does not give them that...unless, of course, that person ends up a victim, commits a crime or loses their minds via a love affair."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Wally Schirra
"I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him."
War
"He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one."
Will
"I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out."
Thought
"When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!"
Media
"At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military."
Career
"Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days."
Politics
"When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it."
Love
"We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right."
Time
"I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept."
People
"I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen."
Flying
bottom of page