I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.
To be one of the world's top space robotic arm operators is a necessary skill for an astronaut, but it doesn't have much carry-over.
No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first.
When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.
There's definitely a fine line between tasteful and tasteless, and as a stylist, it's a line you want to ride very carefully.
After my first year on 'Gossip Girl,' everybody said, 'You've got to do a big commercial movie, ride this wave.'
We don't really consider ourselves famous. we're just four dorks who ride around on a bus.
I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
Vampire Willow Rosenberg: "In my world, we have people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.
Maintain balance in life; not unlike a tire, a life out of balance results in a rough ride and needless wear and tear.
I used to believe that the world is a journey that takes you on a mystical ride across time. I don't anymore.
Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash.
Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.
'Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.
In the late '60s, I was seven, eight, nine years old, and what was going on in the news at that time that really excited a seven, eight, nine year old boy was the Space Race.
If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!
Jenny Curran: Can I have a ride? Pickup-Truck Driver: Where are you going? Jenny Curran: I don't care.
Gandalf: I ride for Minas Tirith... [looks at Pippin] Gandalf: ...and I won't be going alone.
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
