Peggy Whitson Quotes

I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

Gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff.

Gravity wins over all other known forces.

Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.

I was a super active kid, so I've always been aware of where my body is in space, and I think when I had my legs amputated, it makes you more aware of your body, and because I don't use my legs, I use more of my hands.

The most uncomfortable thing about going to space is coming home. It's a little strange to get used to gravity again.

When you've been out for five months, it takes a while to get everything straight in your head. Luckily, my coach and team-mates have treated me extremely well, because that's important when you're finding your way back.

A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

Jenks made a move to follow, probably forgetting he didn’t have wings anymore. He leaned forward and fell to the floor, face first. “Jenks!” I shouted when he hit with a dull smack and started swearing.

The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.

It's always fun when you see different comics at different weights or with different hair.

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.

You know you're getting fat when your socks don't fit.

Trouble defies the law of gravity. It's easier to pick up than to drop.

My opinion about Miller's experiments is the following. ... Should the positive result be confirmed, then the special theory of relativity and with it the general theory of relativity, in its current form, would be invalid. Experimentum summus judex. Only the equivalence of inertia and gravitation would remain, however, they would have to lead to a significantly different theory.

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.

We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.

The second you go back to eating right, you're going to put that weight on. You eat one piece of bread and you are screwed, lady!

I'm always in this shape, that shape, whatever shape you like the most. I am always in various stages of shapes. If the woman needs to be more soft I'll gain weight and then I'll lose weight for another film that I did where I wanted her to be more wiry. I enjoy using my body as something that helps me get to a character.

Like a lady who has lost weight and she's just getting to that point where she can fit into that favourite dress, you get the film down to just about the right cut. You can feel it when it happens.