Andrew Smith Quotes

Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.

~ Andrew Smith

Man will tell woman he will die for her, but I say, tell woman that you will die for her both physically and interior

~ Andrew Smith

Because, in an empty bedroom with creaky old wood floors, it is a natural human response to just stand there and shift your weight from foot to foot, and think about sex.

~ Andrew Smith

I was certain about this: In the best new language, there would be no words for me or you. Those words have caused all the trouble started by the old languages. In any new language, there should only be we.

~ Andrew Smith

When I review my travels among the astronauts, my mind's eye goes first to the Houston shopping mall where Alan Bean sat for hours after returning from space, just eating ice cream and watching the people swirl around him, enraptured by the simple yet miraculous fact they they were there and alive in that moment, and so was he.

~ Andrew Smith

Had (President) Kennedy turned to his advisers and wailed, What can we beat the Russians at? and if someone had cried Backgammon! at that point, Apollo would never have happened.

~ Andrew Smith

Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it was about the Earth. The answer is yes. The only thing I can't see in all this is a rationale for going back. Unless we could find a way to take everyone.

~ Andrew Smith

Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human tragedies .. wanting something so badly that you end up destroying it.

~ Andrew Smith

A world between my fingers.

~ Andrew Smith

It's no wonder I became a monster, too.

~ Andrew Smith

Not a very pretty world, is it?Which one?

~ Andrew Smith

I am going to build something big for you.

~ Andrew Smith