Orion Spacecraft Quotes

#1. An experienced designer with more freedom to act might have realised that there was just too much optimism in the Ares I concept: that a shuttle SRB was simply too small as a first stage for a rocket carrying the relatively heavy Orion spacecraft.

Henry Spencer

#2. The Orion capsule uses an escape system quite like that of the Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s and 70s: an 'escape tower' containing a solid-fuel rocket that will pull it up and away from Ares I in a pinch.

Henry Spencer

#3. But if they don't try a psychedelic like psilocybin or LSD at least once in their adult lives, I will wonder whether they had missed one of the most important rites of passage a human being can experience.

Sam Harris

#4. I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.

Bhartrhari

#5. Mary Poppins is magical and fun.

Julie Andrews

#6. Maybe the idea of the supposed tension between working and nonworking mothers had been put out in the world just to cause divisiveness.

Meg Wolitzer

#7. You can enjoy yourself, but you need to look after yourself as well.

Ian Rush

#8. I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

Amory Lovins

#9. Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

Carrie Fisher

#10. Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

Pat Robertson

#11. Life was briskly and efficiently stripping Quentin of his last delusions about himself, one by one, shucking them off in firm hard jerks like wet clothes, leaving him naked and shivering.

Lev Grossman

#12. Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

Ritchie Blackmore

#13. Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#14. Ava wasn't the poor unsuspecting woman who'd let the wild thing into the house, she was the wild thing's mate, creeping indoors at his side ...

Lauren Gilley

#15. A tight pace has nothing to do with explosions or car chases. It has everything to do with creating a compulsion to keep on reading, even when your reader has other things she really ought to be doing.

Libbie Hawker

#16. Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family.

David Mixner

#17. My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

John Wesley