Rockets Quotes · Page 5

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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

— Homer

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

— Michael P. Anderson

By the way, that's my number one piece of advice if you're going to join a startup: pick a rocket ship.

— Sam Altman

My favorite champions is the 1995 championship with the Rockets. We were the sixth seed without home court advantage.

— Robert Horry

If the money's equal between the Rockets and Mavericks, I think players are picking Houston. Every time.

— Daryl Morey

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

— Thomas Paine

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

— Wernher von Braun

Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to…

— Brad Bird

When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of…

— Jimmy Wales

If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the…

— Mickey Mantle

God,” I moaned. “Do they use that stuff as rocket fuel?” “No one made you keep drinking it.” “Hey, don’t get preachy.…

— Richelle Mead

Television was first conceived to be used as some kind of telescope, not for broadcasting. Originally, Sworkin, the inventor of television, wanted…

— Paul Virilio

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and…

— Anna Kendrick

Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth…

— Sergey Biryuzov

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the…

— Warren Buffett

Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be…

— Arthur C. Clarke

A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to…

— Billy Campbell

The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone…

— Teju Cole

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return The…

— Arthur C. Clarke

With space travel, [it's] no different. You know, in 1990 I read the name Virgin Galactic Airways. Loved the name. And set…

— Richard Branson

You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going…

— Adam Rapp

You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the…

— Price Pritchett

The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced…

— Richard van der Riet Woolley

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

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— George Carlin

Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

— Merle Shain

Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them.

— Steve Jurvetson

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.

— Gary Sinise

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

— Donny Deutsch

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

— Steven Moffat

War toys are scary. They have a rocket launcher with a bayonet attached, in case you miss.

— Milton Berle

Every Iraqi would I know would rather have Saddam back... I mean like... that does not even take rocket science.

— Jodie Evans

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

— Anonymous

“Where was I when the rockets came to life, and carried you away into the alligator sky.?”

— Owl City

My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar.

— Melissa Rauch

The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

— Konstantin E Tsiolkovsky

“But then last September the rockets came. Them fucking rockets. You couldn’t adjust to the bastards.”

— Thomas Pynchon

Cuttino Mobley has just made the two worst shot attempts in the history of this proud Houston Rockets franchise.

— Bill Walton

The problem of destroying enemy rockets in flight has been successfully solved in our country.

— Sergey Biryuzov