Life Quotes

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Wallis Simpson

At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.

Wally Schirra

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.

Wally Schirra

I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

Wally Schirra

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.

Wally Schirra

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.

Wally Schirra

Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.

Wally Schirra

NASA should start thinking about this planet.

Wally Schirra

Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

Wally Schirra

When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.

Wally Schirra

A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

Walter Salles

I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.

Walter Salles

I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.

Walter Salles

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

Walter Salles

The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.

Walter Salles

The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.

Walter Salles

The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

Walter Salles

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Walter Salles

When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.

Walter Salles

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Walter Scott

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Walter Scott