Deke Slayton quotes

“I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high.”
-- Deke Slayton

#Nice Quotes #Feet Quotes #Afternoon Quotes

“As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn't look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk.”
-- Deke Slayton

#Weather Quotes #Feet Quotes #Three Quotes

“About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.”
-- Deke Slayton

#Running Quotes #Climbing Quotes #Going Away Quotes

“Man, I tell you, this is worth waiting 16 years for!”
-- Deke Slayton

#Men Quotes #Years Quotes #Space Quotes

“I feel that I'm in on the ground floor of something that human beings will be concentrating on for the next 1,000 years-if we don't destroy ourselves in the meantime. It's possible that 50 years from now we're going to end up out of this solar system, batting around the universe, at least within our galaxy, investigating other stars and other systems.”
-- Deke Slayton

#Stars Quotes #Future Quotes #Years Quotes

“You're on your way, Jose!”
-- Deke Slayton

Source : Jay Barbree, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton (2011). “Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings”, p.130, Open Road Media

#Moon Quotes #Way Quotes #Star Gazing Quotes

“My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

“It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.”

“The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.”

Source : Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391

“Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”

“I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.”

“Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for”

“TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard”

“an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.”

Source : Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”

“I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.”

“If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.”

Source : Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Thomas Colchie, Mark Strand (1986). “Travelling in the Family: Selected Poems”, New York : Random House