Homer Hickam quotes

You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen. (Homer Hickam)

I didn't care...about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

Homer Hickam

There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.

Homer Hickam

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.

Homer Hickam

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

Homer Hickam

A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse.

Homer Hickam

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

Homer Hickam

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

Homer Hickam

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

Homer Hickam

Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always.

Homer Hickam

The key to not getting rejected if you're writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything about them before you ever make a submission. (Homer Hickam)

As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I don't ever believe that what I write is my best work. I always think that I can hone it. I can always think that I can make it a little bit better.

Homer Hickam

Rational thought will always trump medieval dogma.

Homer Hickam

When the moon was first visited in 1969, the astronauts brought back a treasure trove of unique minerals. Contained within specimens was an isotope called Helium-3, which turns out to be the perfect fuel for fusion reactors.

Homer Hickam

My father use to say if coal died, the country died. He was right. Our economy rests on the back of the coal miner. If we did not have the black diamonds of the mountains to burn, we would lose more than half of the nation's energy reserves.

Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam

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Occupation: American Author
Born: February 19, 1943
Quotes count: 15

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