Rockets Quotes - Page 13

• What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?

  Bill Watterson

  Ems, Ships, Calvin And Hobbes Friendship

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• What do I do? (Jeff) Well, not to insult a man who looks like a rocket scientist in comparison to you, but…run, Forrest, run. (Rafael)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Men, Looks

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “A Hard Day's Night Searcher”, p.308, St. Martin's Press

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• i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.

  Jack Kerouac

  Silly, Blow, Wish

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.217, Penguin

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• I wonder why no one called the police about the rocket launcher? God knows my neighbors usually report it if I so much as fart in my backyard. (Bubba)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Police, Backyards, Wonder

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.213, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Blow, Night, Mad

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.143, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Try a rocket launcher. Think maybe you could manage to hit me with that?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Trying, Manage

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1109, Dell

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• People feel that building a rocket for Mars is an exciting project, but if you see the refugees around the world and the millions of homeless people, then for me it's insulting that people are fantasizing about leaving planet Earth and going wherever.

  Pedro Reyes

  People, Leaving, Insulting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks.

  Alan Watts

  Two, Space, Risk

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• The Palestinians cannot throw rockets and expect people not to defend themselves

  Joan Rivers

  People, Palestinian

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• I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan. I literally love every single film. He hasn't made a bad film; I've seen every single one. They've all been brilliant, from 'Bottle Rocket' up to 'Moonrise Kingdom,' they've all been wonderful.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Fans, Bottles, Kingdoms

  "Saoirse Ronan, ‘The Host’ Star, On Playing Dual Roles & Wes Anderson Love". Interview With Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.

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• I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket scientist. I think I'm good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family. That's what I think I'm good at.

  Rachael Ray

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage of a three-stage rocket, or simply get in a balloon and keep going. But if it's sheer, unadulterated discomfort you're looking for, just stay on land.

  Michael Palin

  Land, Volunteer, Three

  "Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days". Documentary, 1989.

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• We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.

  George Carlin

  Rain, Civilization, Space

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• [On the propulsive force of rockets] One part of fire takes up as much space as ten parts of air, and one part of air takes up the space of ten parts of water, and one part of water as much as ten parts of earth. Now powder is earth, consisting of the four elementary principles, and when the sulfur conducts the fire into the dryest part of the powder, fire, and air increase ... the other elements also gird themselves for battle with each other and the rage of battle is changed by their heat and moisture into a strong wind.

  Vannoccio Biringuccio

  Strong, Science, Space

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• PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Smell, Noses

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.180, University of Georgia Press

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• If someday rockets should open the gates to space, then we must be oriented as to its environmental conditions and their possible biological effects. To study this, and to find means of protection, is one of the tasks of space medicine.

  Hubertus Strughold

  Mean, Medicine, Space

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• The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill.

  David M. Brown

  Mean, Littles, Kind

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• Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the heat& smell of gunpowder, making moneyfloat from hand to hand. The next momenta rocket pushes a white fistthrough night sky, & they scatter like birds& fall into the shape their liveshave become.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Fall, Night, White

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• [What for] was the first question he asked about any activity proposed to him - and nothing would make him act, if he found no valid answer. He flew through the days of his summer month like a rocket, but if one stopped him in mid-flight, he could always name the purpose of his every random moment. Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly.

  Ayn Rand

  Summer, Moving, Names

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.71, Hamilton Books

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• You don't have to be a rocket scientist to prove that cutting incomes to the poorest families will have a negative impact on kids. That is less money for the basics like food, health and clothes.

  Metiria Turei

  Kids, Cutting, Impact

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• Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.

  Norman Mailer

  Opportunity, Simple, Blood

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• There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

  John Powell

  Brain, Myth, Surgery

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• The Retrofire rockets seem to be responding well

  Gherman Titov

  Responding, Wells, Seems

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• This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Doe, Initiative, Individual

  Elizabeth Moon (2004). “Marque and Reprisal”, p.37, Del Rey

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• When I was doing Dobie Gillis, I got blasted off to the moon with a chimp in a rocket, and I landed on a deserted tropic island. That should have told me something was coming.

  Bob Denver

  Moon, Islands, Should Have

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