S.W. Collins Quotes

I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.

When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.

Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.

I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.

A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.

There is but one Earth, tiny and fragile, and one must get 100,000 miles away to appreciate fully one's good fortune in living on it.

The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so thin. We know that we don't have much air - we need to protect what we have.

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.

That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.

Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.

I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

A lot of times you see really good-looking guys on TV and you sort of assume that maybe there's some sort of vacuity behind them.

For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand. -Peeta

It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

Deep inside us we're not that different at all.

Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.

I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, 'Can we just stay?' So we did.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

People are not your most important asset....the right people are.

My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.

The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.

I've always liked sci-fi/fantasy films. I've never really followed any sci-fi television shows though. I wouldn't consider myself a fan. When asked, I think I say the Matrix is my favorite movie.