Rocket Quotes

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

“What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.”

“As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who were developing flying were laughed at as mad, and that scorn hindered aviation. Now we heap similar ridicule upon stratoplane or rocket ships for trans-Atlantic flights. (1933)[Predicting high-altitude jet aircraft for routine long-distance travel.]”

“Rocket science only needed when we build rocket.”

“Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.”

“What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.”

“The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.”

“The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke.”

“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.”