Liftoff Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

Elon Musk

#3. ...they're here for a moment and then gone. At best they have "liftoff" power, or, to use a different analogy, they are like periodic flashes of lightning on a dark road, with no guiding power.

Ravi Zacharias

#4. Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

John W. Gardner

#5. When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, it was an accident, but when she stepped through the looking glass, it was of her own free will, and a braver deed by far.

Salman Rushdie

#6. Do you know why the French are so honest? because there are so few words in their language they're forced to be.

William Gaddis

#7. Jesus, would you look at him. Hair too long and too blond. Eyes too sexy and too blue. Body too buff, ego in danger of liftoff. Standing there in his tight fitted jeans, painted-on T-shirt, and snakeskin boots, he looked like God's guilty gift. Trouble was, he knew it.

Cindy Gerard

#8. I am very fired up to run in New York.

Dayron Robles

#9. I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics.

Newt Gingrich

#10. Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.

Alan Shepard

#11. I remember reading that the space shuttle uses more fuel during its first three minutes after liftoff than during its entire voyage around the earth,

Robin S. Sharma

#12. You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.

Alan Shepard

#13. The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.

Leon Bloy

#14. Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

Mary Pope Osborne

#15. Shinya Yamanaka's work has involved mice and human cells, and advances the prospect of providing new cells or body parts for patients.

John Gurdon

#16. They have the impression that between launches, we pretty much sit around in a waiting room in Houston trying to catch our breath before the next liftoff. Since you usually only hear about

Chris Hadfield

#17. And then we came here for three weeks of band rehearsal with [music consultant/member of the band "Sloan"] Chris Murphy. And I grew up in Toronto during Sloan's heyday, so like I was like "Oh my god!" And so that was pretty cool.

Alison Pill

#18. Houston, We Have Liftoff!

NASA

#19. A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.

Clive Owen

#20. Once you start making decisions in which your heart, mind, and soul are congruent, you'll feel it as a kind of lift, if not liftoff.

Elizabeth Berg

#21. Please, dear Lord, don't let me f*** up. - ALAN SHEPARD, first American in space, seconds before liftoff

Eric Greitens

#22. To be a great player or a good player in the NBA, I have to work on my perimeter game.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#23. Nothing got more serious than allowing a tortoise to crawl across your kitchen floor.

J. Lynn