Rocket Ship Quotes

#1. Chinese experts noted that the U.S. economy has rebounded from the 2008 crash more strongly than some analysts here had expected, while China's own growth is slowing after several decades of rocket-ship acceleration.

David Ignatius

#2. It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.

Kurt Busch

#3. I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

Jack Kirby

#4. Do you have one where you're riding a horse or a camel? Or sitting on a rocket ship? Those are always wildly popular with men looking for sex.
- SINGLE-MINDED

Lisa Daily

#5. Sofi could see the lights in the distance, like the stars hanging above and the planet perched in the sky. Waiting breathless by the moon for them to visit in their rocket ship.

Mary Weber

#6. What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?

Bill Watterson

#7. An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.

Elizabeth McCracken

#8. Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in a rocket ship.

Chris Hadfield

#9. We realized that YouTube is a rocket ship and that this is an incredibly big space. I started agitating for it. I was the most passionate voice for acquiring YouTube: 'The price tag seems really high, but it is going to be worth it.

Salar Kamangar

#10. By the way, that's my number one piece of advice if you're going to join a startup: pick a rocket ship.

Sam Altman

#11. Starting out, iRobot was not an economic rocket ship. It took six and a half years before we had enough money in the bank at the beginning of each month to make payroll. We always made it - we paid salaries at the end of the month, and I always had four weeks to figure things out.

Colin Angle

#12. It's like we're on a rocket ship that we were just painting, and suddenly it took off and we're holding onto the ship with our fingernails.

Esteban Contreras

#13. Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.

Gregory Harrison

#14. To touch this abomination with anything less perfectly attuned to its nature than the carefully dispersed wings of an engine field would be like an ancient, fragile rocket ship falling into a sun, like a wooden sea-ship encountering an atomic blast.

Iain M. Banks

#15. My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.

Jack McDevitt

#16. If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

Sheryl Sandberg

#17. I'd like to build myself a rocket ship and launch myself into space. Still waiting on the technological advances required for a DIY space flight.

Alex Gaskarth

#18. You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

Bill Watterson

#19. 3,2,1 ... Launch! A lot of preparation goes into launching a rocket ship. No short cuts or cheating will get that rocket to its destination. A lot of hard work and dedication goes into every launch. What are you doing to launch? Are you doing the proper work needed? Are you dedicated?

Robert D. Kintigh

#20. Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

Jon Heder

#21. The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#22. Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

Wynton Marsalis

#23. I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing ... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Lou Holtz

#24. It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every gesture, even the smile of the human face, must become a hymn of adoration, an offering, a prayer. One should offer not what one has but what one is.

Paul Evdokimov

#25. The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. I'm a bit of a homebody. It doesn't take long for me to get to the point where I'm ready to be home again.

Tracy Pollan