The Rover Quotes

#1. When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark To captivate her favorite fly And tempt the rover through the dark.

James Montgomery

#2. It was fucking cold. The rover and trailer regulate their own temperatures just fine, but things weren't hot enough in the bedroom. Story of my life.

Andy Weir

#3. There's no way to actually turn the rover off.

Steve Squyres

#4. Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

Ahmed Zewail

#5. We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

Steven Squyres

#6. Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this
Than any other thing!

William Allingham

#7. On Sunday August 5, 2012, I was among a group of people who witnessed the Rover landing on Mars in real time at NASA's Caltech-managed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

Ahmed Zewail

#8. As soon as the rover toppled, I curled into a ball and cowered. That's the kind of action hero I am.

Andy Weir

#9. The Mars Rover sent back stunning photos [last week] indicating the past presence of water. The pictures show tiny splotches of blue on the Red Planet. The other theory is that the satellite dish on the rover accidentally picked up CNN's election coverage.

Argus Hamilton

#10. There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man.

Joseph Conrad

#11. Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest?

Robert Bridges

#12. It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.

Brad Sherman

#13. The Mars rover Curiosity has sent back images of some odd things on the surface of Mars, and some people think they could be UFOs. Here's my question. If we're on the surface of Mars, aren't we the UFO?

Jay Leno

#14. We are the only country with an operating rover on Mars. We are an amazing country on tech.

Megan Smith

#15. Now I'm in a rougher neighborhood. The kind of neighborhood where you keep your rover doors locked and never come to a complete stop at intersections.

Andy Weir

#16. Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?

Victoria Laurie

#17. Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.

Anthony Stafford Beer

#18. My hair had grown out long and shaggy - not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way.

Jim Butcher

#19. The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.

Martin Jacques

#20. I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.

Harriet Martineau

#21. Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's aware that will not keep.
Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.

A.E. Housman

#22. I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the dust as you bump along in a Land-Rover. I go back there often.

Giles Foden

#23. It's not how you look in the mirror that's important, what's important is how you are reflected in the eyes of the people who love you. --T. Hammond (Red Rover)

T. Hammond

#24. The fundamentalists were equally stymied. "We were worried about Adam and Steve," a Baptist minister said. "Should we have been more worried about Rover and Fluffy?

Charlaine Harris

#25. Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#26. In the beginning was the dog the real name of Jehovah is Rover. Adam's rib is buried in the garden

John Hegley

#27. Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't.

Andy Weir

#28. Bullshit. You're as much of a man as I am. You're the sleek little sports car to my Land Rover.

Jay Northcote

#29. Always live the adventure.

Christopher J. Holcroft

#30. Yeah, I definitely pulled something in my back. I woke up in agony. So I took a break from rover planning. Instead, I spent the day taking drugs and playing with radiation.

Andy Weir

#31. Landon spun the wheel. The Land Rover nearly careened, turning off the road. Landon parked and bolted out of the car, slapping the driver's door closed behind him.

Ilona Andrews

#32. He splayed his fingers in her hair and stared at her for a few moments. "I'm giving in to the need to do what I wanted the minute I saw ye exit the Land Rover with the Scottish gales blowing about yer golden hair."
"What?"
"I'm going to kiss ye.

Vonnie Davis

#33. Usually, a Range Rover would be beaten away from the lights by a diesel powered wheelbarrow.

Jeremy Clarkson

#34. I don't see why the likes o' thee
Without axin' leave should go makin' free
With the shank or the shin o' my father's kin;
So hand the old bone over!
Rover! Trover!
Though dead he be, it belongs to he;
So hand the old bnone over!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#35. I need some encouragement. I need to ask myself, "What would an Apollo astronaut do?" He'd drink three whiskey sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, then fly to the moon in a command module smaller than my Rover. Man those guys were cool.

Andy Weir

#36. As far as trucks, the great thing about a Range Rover is if you're going out for a dinner, even a black tie event, you can take the Range Rover.

Luke Goss

#37. Friends, huh?" Rush said, coming to stand beside me.
"Yeah. She's decided we can be friends," I told him ...
"I tried the friends thing with Blaire once. It lasted less than a week before I was stripping her naked in the back of my Range Rover. Good luck with that.

Abbi Glines

#38. My Range Rover is great for LA. You can take surfboards on it and stick some bikes in the back. And if you kidnap people you could tie them up in the back, there's space for your chloroform ...

Gerard Butler

#39. Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.

Nancy Gibbs

#40. I really enjoy it
it's like a videogame on wheels. The GPS touch screen is one of the most entertaining things I've ever seen in a car. I still have a Range Rover that I don't drive much anymore, because I started feeling bad about it.

Mike Shinoda

#41. The Curiosity rover has confirmed and substantially expanded earlier findings that Mars was warmer and much wetter a long time ago.

Anonymous

#42. The human mind is a rover, it constantly returns to think about times past, cogitates upon the future, and actively considers the entire range of alternative plans to meet our daily survival demands.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#43. I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.

Eugene Cernan

#44. The Mars rover Curiosity, for example, is powered by the heat from a chunk of plutonium it carries in a container on the end of a stick.

Randall Munroe

#45. I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much.

Brian Johnson