David Kerr

“They have the impression that between launches, we pretty much sit around in a waiting room in Houston trying to catch our breath before the next liftoff. Since you usually only hear about”
― Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“I still had a lot to learn, and I’d have to learn it the same place everyone learns to be an astronaut: right here on Earth.”
― Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“An astronaut is someone who’s able to make good decisions quickly, with incomplete information, when the consequences really matter. I didn’t miraculously become one either, after just eight days in space. But I did get in touch with the fact that I didn’t even know what I didn’t know.”
― Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth