Launch Pad Quotes

#1. The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.

Alan Shepard

#2. Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that May or may not wind up at the launch pad. You can't view training solely as a stepping stone to something loftier. It's got to be an end in itself.

Chris Hadfield

#3. The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch pad.

Isabel Yosito

#4. I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that's because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.

Bill Nye

#5. Uh ... what can I say? Made money. Given a launch pad for a working life. Set a precedent I had no interest in following. Created expectations that I was not cut-out to match. Disappointed virtually all of my readers subsequently. But I like what I've done, and I stand by it all.

Alex Garland

#6. I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

Wally Schirra

#7. I'm always open to new, innovative stuff and people trying to do stuff in a different way. I knew that the theatrical release would be like getting on the launch pad for Amazon Prime but I was okay with that because I think what Jeff Bezos and Ted Hope are doing is innovative.

Spike Lee

#8. When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you.

Alan G. Poindexter

#9. The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.

Sally Ride

#10. Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.

Susan Sontag

#11. In April 1968, a test launch with an unmanned Apollo 6 capsule aboard suffered from a "pogo effect." Unnerved NASA engineers watched as their thirty-six-stories-tall rocket bounced across the pad for half a minute before finally achieving liftoff.

James Clay Moltz

#12. Little brothers are the New York Mets of life!

Charles M. Schulz

#13. There is more inside you than you dare think.

David R. Brower

#14. When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.

Sheryl Sandberg

#15. I just met a wonderful new man, he is fictional but you can't have everything

Woody Allen

#16. Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

Maya Angelou