Kalpana Chawla famous quotes

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
-- Kalpana Chawla

#Strong Women #Stars #Space

Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
-- Kalpana Chawla

#Senior #Jobs #Hands

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. Wishing you a great journey.
-- Kalpana Chawla

#Dream #Perseverance #Journey

The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after sunset and watching the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the earth moves underneath.
-- Kalpana Chawla

#Stars #Moving #Sunset

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.
-- Kalpana Chawla

#Engineering #Aerospace #Grades

I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
-- Kalpana Chawla

#Aerospace #Flying #World

This planet below you is our campsite, and you know of no other campground.
-- Kalpana Chawla

#Earth #Planets

In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.

Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.

Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.