But then last September the rockets came. Them fucking…

The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Owl City

“The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke. And from the rockets ran men with hammers in their hands…

— Ray Bradbury

“Where was I when the rockets came to life And carried you away into the alligator sky Even though, I'll never know what's up…

— Owl City

In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. I…

— Thomas Pynchon

There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.

— Fernand Braudel

From the rocket we can see the huge sphere of the planet in one or another phase of the Moon. We can see how…

— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do…

— Charles Bukowski

As seventh graders, my classmates and I would make rockets to see what made them fly and models of remote-controlled motor boats because Palanpur…

— Pranav Mistry

If you increase the number of rockets you build and you buy, then it's the scale of the economy, the price is going to…

— Leroy Chiao

The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.

— Hermann Oberth

Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

— Gary Sinise

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

— Price Pritchett

No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than…

— Peter Hilton