Rockets Quotes - Page 7

• Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Thinking, What If

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• When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Government, Space, Steps

  "President Obama’s JFK Moment". The blog of Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2010.

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• To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Song, Strong, Guitar

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• Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.

  Edith Wharton

  Summer, Moon, Sky

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.188, Xist Publishing

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• Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs. Many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, Poor Quality, Achievement

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Ernest W. Lefever (1989). “Perestroika: how new is Gorbachev's new thinking? : Mikhail Gorbachev's views and responses from Zbigniew Brezinski ... [and others]”, Ethics & Public Policy Center

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• Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Integrity

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• Always, when you know what you don't want, that's when the rocket of desire is born of what you do want. That is the fruit of your experience. Now pluck it and savor it and enjoy it. Visualize it, and find the feeling place of it. And live happily ever after, once you get the hang of this.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Feelings

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• I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.

  Gary Numan

  Children, Home, School

  "Gary Numan: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

  Gary Oldman

  Children, Drawing, Car

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• I believe that the time has arrived for medical investigation of the problems of manned rocket flight, for it will not be the engineering problems but rather the limits of the human frame that will make the final decision as to whether manned space flight will eventually become a reality.

  Wernher von Braun

  Believe, Reality, Medicine

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• It's really not rocket science. If animals are not mere things; if they have moral value, we cannot justify eating, wearing, or using them particularly when we have no better reason than palate pleasure or fashion. If you are eating, wearing, or using animals, then your actions say that you regard them as mere things, despite what your words say.

  Gary L. Francione

  Fashion, Animal, Action

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• We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Past, Race, Years

  "The Exploration of Space". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1951.

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• Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

  Bill Gates

  Orbit, Microsoft, Computer

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• There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before.... The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness.

  Jan Struther

  Stars, Lakes, Air

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• As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

  John Glenn

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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  Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.

  Charlie Sheen

  Fuel, Resentment

  "Charlie Sheen Spills His Guts on TMZ". "TMZ Live" with Mike Walters, www.tmz.com. February 28, 2011.

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• There are some instances where you may be ahead of us, for example, in the development of the thrust of your rockets for the investigation of outer space; there may be some instances in which we are ahead of you--in color television, for instance.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Color, Space, Example

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• The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Space, Safety

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• We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.

  Ray Bradbury

  Moon, Fire, Forever

  "Ray Bradbury hates big government: ‘Our country is in need of a revolution’", herocomplex.latimes.com. August 16, 2010.

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• I'm like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket and flew to the moon. What was his name? Apollo Creed?

  Homer

  Moon, Names, Guy

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• The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.

  Ronald Reagan

  Faith, Spiritual, Military

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• The rocket that goes up next March will not only lift a payload, it will launch what I believe will ultimately be the most significant commercial space facility in the country, ... This launch will be a brilliant signal flare that will let the nation and the world know New Mexico's spaceport is open for business. We can now say with certainty that the dream of this spaceport launching a new era in New Mexico's aerospace industry will become reality.

  Bill Richardson

  Dream, Country, Believe

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• There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Gun, Police, Historical

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• If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Air Power, Aviation

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• You don't have to be a rocket science to know that if Joe Teti has a rifle, and a round to go with it. I'm going hunting.

  Joe Teti

  Hunting, Survival, Rifles

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