I call 'Rocket Boys' an emotion.

'Rocket Boys,' for one reason or the other, just happened to strike a chord across country and across world, maybe because it's set in…

— Homer Hickam

Coalwood, West Virginia, is the little coal-mining town where I grew up, and it was there that five other teenage boys and I famously…

— Homer Hickam

Interestingly, 'October Sky' is an anagram of 'Rocket Boys', the same letters just moved around. This was discovered by director Joe Johnston using an…

— Homer Hickam

After marketing surveys by Universal Studios indicated that 'Rocket Boys' as a movie title would not attract the female over-age-thirty demographic, the film was…

— Homer Hickam

My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. He was the first one to do it…

— Kevin Connolly

“Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.”

— Virginia Woolf

If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.

— Drew Houston

In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting…

— Zach Woodlee

“Rocket Fever Grips Nation's Teenagers' cheers on enthusiastic newsreel, reflecting the nation's sudden reversal in attitude following the successful launch of Explorer-I into Earth…

— Ken Hollings

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

— Tommy Mottola

Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense…

— Nicole Scherzinger

Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war…

— Charles Duke

I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm…

— Iggy Azalea

I've never thought of acting as rocket science - you put on the costume, get your hair cut, and that's it, really.

— Marc Warren