Don Brownlee Quote

We've undergone a very heavy level of scrutiny by review boards because of Genesis and because of th...
DON BROWNLEE

These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system.
DON BROWNLEE

These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system. Personally, I feel a strong attachm...
DON BROWNLEE

We did this mission to collect the most primitive materials we could in the solar system. We went to...
DON BROWNLEE

What we want to know is how organic molecules actually form in comets and whether they helped delive...
DON BROWNLEE

This comet formed at very edge of the solar system ... out by pluto ... and spent all its lifetime o...
DON BROWNLEE

We'll be able to say some things almost instantly. One of the big questions is do comets contain min...
DON BROWNLEE

We are approaching the end of a quite fantastic voyage.
DON BROWNLEE

We believe materials coming out of comets now is the same material that went into comets 4.5 billion...
DON BROWNLEE

We found mineral grains that are considered very high-temperature minerals -- they normally form und...
DON BROWNLEE

About 10 per cent of this comet is made of organic materials. We don't know exactly what they all ar...
DON BROWNLEE

You're seeing the very first, absolutely identified comet particle that has ever been seen.
DON BROWNLEE

We are confident [the comet] was made out of the initial building blocks of our solar system.
DON BROWNLEE

We are collecting the actual building blocks the solar system was formed from 4.5 billion years ago....
DON BROWNLEE

We visited a comet, grabbed a piece of it, and landed here this morning. It was a real thrill.
DON BROWNLEE

We're confident that the things coming out [of Comet Wild 2] are the same as those that went in. We ...
DON BROWNLEE

We were stunned when we got to the comet and saw incredible features - steep cliffs, overhanging cli...
DON BROWNLEE

This is what we looked like 4.5 billion years ago. Comets haven't changed since then.
DON BROWNLEE

The fundamental reason for this mission is that we are collecting what we believe are the best prese...
DON BROWNLEE

We're collecting things that are very ancient and even older than our solar system. We are literally...
DON BROWNLEE

In recent decades, spacecraft have passed fairly close to comets and provided us with excellent data...
DON BROWNLEE

We have successfully collected samples from the comet and we're bringing them home for analysis in l...
DON BROWNLEE

Each year we have 30 to 40,000 tons of primitive material from comets and asteroids that lands on Ea...
DON BROWNLEE

Our mission is called Stardust, in part because we believe some of the particles in the comet will, ...
DON BROWNLEE

We are nearing the end of quite a fantastic voyage.
DON BROWNLEE

I'm usually looking down, into a microscope.
DON BROWNLEE

We saw incredible features -- steep cliffs, overhanging cliffs, spires and many other things we had ...
DON BROWNLEE

They were either red-hot or white-hot grains, and yet we collected them in a comet, the Siberia of t...
DR. DON BROWNLEE

I just can't believe this actually is a piece of a comet, but it is.
DR. DON BROWNLEE

I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win me...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

During an open water swim, it's easy to lose your direction. With all the splash, it can be quit...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

On the night before a triathlon, I normally eat something simple like a pizza. You know where you st...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particul...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

The RIM-NTP dispute has become a game of chicken. It's also almost a given that NTP will mightily co...
BROWNLEE THOMAS

AT&T is absolutely on the right track.
BROWNLEE THOMAS

This is clearly an e-commerce strategy. What AltaVista and other portals want to do is attract users...
BROWNLEE THOMAS

Everyone is looking at the U.S. market. U.S. firms like to buy American.
BROWNLEE THOMAS

They'll need a really strong advertiser base. There are people who will pay [a monthly fee] not to b...
BROWNLEE THOMAS

We've already started to put up the fence around the site.
BRUCE BROWNLEE

We have a lot of different types of engineering activities that we're trying to place people in. Wha...
BRUCE BROWNLEE

We weren't expecting that to happen so quickly. We were very happy with the decision.
BRUCE BROWNLEE

We anticipate that the state will be able to continue to work through this legal process and that th...
BRUCE BROWNLEE

We hope to close on the property this spring and shortly after that begin our construction.
BRUCE BROWNLEE

Whenever we race in London, the noise of the fans gives me goosebumps.
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

Our capsule is half the size and one-fourth the mass of Genesis,
DONALD BROWNLEE

The school holidays were always an exciting time in the Brownlee household. This was the opportunity...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

Virtually all of the atoms in our bodies and in the Earth were in interstellar grains - stardust gra...
DONALD BROWNLEE

We're approaching the end of a fantastic voyage. This is the farthest anything from Earth has travel...
DONALD BROWNLEE

So far, as far as we know Wild 2 is a unique object.
DONALD BROWNLEE

It's fascinating that they're so different.
DONALD BROWNLEE

Comets do blow up unexpectedly,
DONALD BROWNLEE

What was the chance someone would put a g-switch in backward and not be discovered, ... It has got t...
DONALD BROWNLEE

We're in excellent shape. We've done almost everything we have to do in the entire mission...only th...
DONALD BROWNLEE

I support Leeds United, and like any fan, I dreamed of playing for them. I tried out at the club and...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

Triathlon is a sport where the legacy is obvious. Anyone can do it; there are loads you can do. It i...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

It's not much, but still it's so much that we're almost overwhelmed. The first grain we worked on, w...
DONALD BROWNLEE

The variety of training is a major selling point of triathlon. Different sports, different venues me...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

We saw many, many, many comet particles that were big enough to see with the naked eye.
DONALD BROWNLEE

When you ride fast and then rest for a bit, it causes a spike in your heart rate and helps your body...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

The prediction was that we would get a dozen particles larger than human hair size and one particle ...
DONALD BROWNLEE

I want to emphasize that what happened here at Fort Stewart is not just a Fort Stewart issue, ... It...
LES BROWNLEE

We?re using this comet as a library that picked up records and stored them far from the sun at very ...
DONALD BROWNLEE

In the coldest part of the solar system, we have found samples that formed at extremely high tempera...
DONALD BROWNLEE

Helen Clark must explain why it is acceptable for a minister who has admitted 'cutting corners' on r...
GERRY BROWNLEE

In the coldest part of the solar system, we've found samples that have formed at extremely high temp...
DONALD BROWNLEE

There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into...
DONALD BROWNLEE

The community is real jazzed about it. People all over the world, using all kinds of fantastic instr...
DONALD BROWNLEE

This was our first view of the comet dust. We are the first people in the history of the planet to s...
DONALD BROWNLEE

For all the ideas and theories that people might have, we have some real ground truth.
DONALD BROWNLEE

We have always stressed in this mission that we are stardust. Our planet and even our selves have a ...
DONALD BROWNLEE

We are quite different: I'm relaxed, and I get ready for races really late, whereas Jonny is rea...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

I stood in my garden as the rain poured down, eyes closed, and when I opened them I thought to mysel...
SARAH BROWNLEE

I'm a big gamer, so I love my PlayStation to switch off from triathlon.
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

When they formed, they were either red-hot or white-hot and we found them in the Siberia of the sola...
DONALD BROWNLEE

We're seeing a variety of things that we know absolutely come from a comet.
DONALD BROWNLEE

We fully expect some of the comet particles to be older than the sun.
DONALD BROWNLEE

Scientifically, that's great, because there's been lots of discussion of whether comets contain mine...
DONALD BROWNLEE

It's thrilling. We have samples of a comet from the edge of the solar system.
DONALD BROWNLEE

We opened the capsule yesterday and it's just full of comet dust.
DONALD BROWNLEE

There have been better (seasons), definitely. I don't know what to attribute it to. I don't know if ...
ERIC BROWNLEE

We've had a few good years in a row. Maybe it's time for the players.
ERIC BROWNLEE

In college, it was pretty consistent there, too.
ERIC BROWNLEE

I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school ...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

My first event was in Nottingham, aged 11, and the prize was a bike. I thought, 'Wow.' I had...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

I was good at swimming until everyone started to grow. The best swimmers are really tall with great ...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

Alistair made my goals feel more achievable. I remember him competing for Great Britain when he was ...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

The best thing about having your brother in the same sport as you means you can go out and train tog...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

They're going to be part of the political landscape for some time to come.
GERRY BROWNLEE

For two ministers who are taking different positions to try to hide that difference by climbing in b...
GERRY BROWNLEE

While he may wish to describe it as a mistake, falsification of documents is very clearly a serious ...
GERRY BROWNLEE

I will be writing to the State Services Commission in an effort to get an explanation about how a su...
GERRY BROWNLEE

We're proud Yorkshiremen: we grew up fell running, and we still do it whenever we can. I did my ...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

It has come as a big shock to everyone and it is hard to imagine the club without Scott around.
IAN BROWNLEE

In the fifth the home side were the much more focused of the two and, with a noisy crowd cheering th...
IAN BROWNLEE

Anyone who crawls up from the gutter and makes something of themselves, despite the odds and despite...
SARAH BROWNLEE

Those in medical status, they should be in the improved level of billets, those that are air conditi...
LES BROWNLEE

It is important that these plans be available for implementation when the security conditions and th...
LES BROWNLEE

Public safety remains our principal interest. The Army has demonstrated since 1990 that it can safel...
LES BROWNLEE

If you look at the operational environment in which we're now operating and the one we think we'll b...
LES BROWNLEE

We're going to move to make those improvements.
LES BROWNLEE

To many places around the world, the face of the United States is the face of the American soldier.
LES BROWNLEE

That was real big. This is probably the first time throughout the whole year where he's been in foul...
JUSTIN BROWNLEE

It's really caught the public's attention, and there's a lot of concern for safety. As more and more...
SEN KARIN BROWNLEE

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
DON MARQUIS

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move th...
DON MARQUIS

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midst...
DON MARQUIS

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church ...
DON MARQUIS

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have ...
DON MARQUIS

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
DON MARQUIS

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
DON MARQUIS

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
DON MARQUIS

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
DON MARQUIS

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get...
DON MARQUIS

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your ...
DON CHEADLE

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
DON SUTTON

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
DON KING

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
DON DELILLO

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he fin...
DON DELILLO

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work throu...
DON DELILLO

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginnin...
DON DELILLO

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what ...
DON DELILLO

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his li...
DON DELILLO

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to ...
DON DELILLO

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
DON DELILLO

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
DON DELILLO

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to un...
DON DELILLO

The future belongs to crowds.
DON DELILLO

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and t...
DON DELILLO

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the id...
DON DELILLO

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
DON DELILLO

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
DON DELILLO

America was and is the immigrant's dream.
DON DELILLO

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract ...
DON DELILLO

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time whe...
DON DELILLO

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
DON DELILLO

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
DON HENLEY

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?
DON RICKLES

When writing, I split my time between my chambers and my satellite office: my neighborhood Chick-fil...
DON WILLETT

When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's mean...
DON MCCULLIN

Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. ...
DON WILLETT

I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it'...
DON BLUTH

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.
DON HENLEY

I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
DON PIPER

what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and...
DON MARQUIS

ihave often noticed thatancestors never boastof the descendants who boastof ancestors i wouldrather ...
DON MARQUIS

If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
DON KING

The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. Tha...
DON KARDONG

In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watc...
DON AMECHE

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I...
DON HENLEY

My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the peo...
DON KING

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders ...
DON TAPSCOTT

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
DON SHULA

The person who has no enemies has no followers.
DON PIATT

Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.
DON RICKLES

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
DON MARQUIS

Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him.
DON MARQUIS

So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
DON MARQUIS

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
DON MARQUIS

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
DON MARQUIS

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e...
DON MARQUIS

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
DON MARQUIS

Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to d...
DON RICKLES

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
DON MARQUIS

The 2 Major US Political parties have divided and conquered the US Voters by making elections about ...
DON MASHAK

Speaking to how elections are framed in the USA: It is not Republican vs Democrat, nor Conservative ...
DON MASHAK

OZOCRACY - Watch the spectacle (or divisive, polarizing issue) we, the politicians, have created or ...
DON MASHAK

Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it ...
DON EVERLY

Old men need applause too
DON EVERLY

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor gam...
DON COOPER

If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'...
DON MARQUIS

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
DON HEROLD

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he cou...
DON MARQUIS

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.
DON PIATT

I am just another insect on the windshield of life.
DON MASHAK

Speak low if you speak love.
DON PEDRO

Get the job done.
DON SHULA

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
DON SHULA

I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
DON MARQUIS

This is what comes from the wrong kind of attentiveness. People get brain fade. This is because they...
DON DELILLO

A naked woman was amazing.

He'd never seen it this way, in full light, without half-off c...
DON DELILLO

Throughout History, Empires have persecuted the great agitators; Noah, Socrates, Jesus, Columbus, Vo...
DON MASHAK

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age ...
DON DELILLO

The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within mem...
DON CAMPBELL

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
DON MARQUIS

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
DON MARQUIS

To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents.
DON PIATT

Where one door closes, another opens.
DON QUIJOTE

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
DON HEROLD

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
DON HEROLD

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
DON MARQUIS

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in m...
DON MARQUIS

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
DON HEROLD

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money...
DON MARQUIS

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
DON HEROLD

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.
DON HEROLD

America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame Ame...
DON DELILLO

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of c...
DON DELILLO

These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system. All of the atoms in our bodies - the carbon atoms, the oxygen, the nitrogen, potassium, calcium and so forth - all of those atoms were in stardust grains like those coming out of the comet now before the solar system formed.

Don Brownlee

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