To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance. — Joseph Bayly Copy Share Image
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith! — Donna Mills Copy Share Image
When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing… — Will Gluck Copy Share Image
My dad felt pretty strongly that I know about the basic workings of a plane and so he taught me how to… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn't go far. Many startups… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the moon… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
There is also a distinct possibility that there are other actors ? whose names have not leaked to the press ? who… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
The city?" Tyrion was lost. "What city would that be?" "King's Landing. I am sending you to court." It was the last… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He held up a finger and went to the hallway, where he tripped over Blotchy, and then over the two monster cats… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever by walking to the bank at Greenwich to get the money to… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Only man is a narcissistic enough species to think that a highly evolved alien life force would travel across billions and billions… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
And here come the Left Brothers - Al "747" Sharpton and Jesse "DC 10" Jackson - barreling in for a landing on… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches. — Sergei Bubka Copy Share Image
We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career. — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear. — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“She’s always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks. — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“Art is a miraculous flirtation with Nothing! Aiming for nothing, and landing on the Sun.” — Jose Garcia Villa Copy Share Image
Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
A 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away. A 'great' landing is one after which they can use the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was not surprised to find the poor were protesting the extravagant expense of the Moon landing back in the 1960’s.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an… — Chuck Yeager Copy Share Image
There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up. — Elliot Johnson Copy Share Image