quotes about Apollo
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The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
-- Ahmet Ertegun -
My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
-- Akio Morita -
I guess those of us who have been with NASA ... kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.
-- Alan ShepardSource : "It's Been 25 Years Since We Took That Giant Leap For Mankind - Moon Odyssey" by James Endrst, The Hartford Courant, p. B1, July 08, 1994.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
-- Bayard Taylor -
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I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.
-- Charles DukeSource : "ALSEP Off-load". Apollo 16 Lunar Surface Journal, www.hq.nasa.gov. 1996.
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Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
-- David R. Brower -
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[Apollo 7 was] an expedition of the mind, not of the heart.
-- Earl Warren -
Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.
-- Gene Cernan -
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How do you expect to get us to the Moon if you people can't even hook us up with a ground station?
-- Gus Grissom -
Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]
-- Horace -
No one will deny that the soul of Pythagoras was sent to mankind from Apollo's domain, having either been one of his attendants, or more intimate associates, which may be inferred both from his birth, and his versatile wisdom.
-- IamblichusSource : "Life of Pythagoras". Book by Iamblichus, Ch. 2: Youth, Education, Travels, translated by Thomas Taylor,
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My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat -
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Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often gets from traditionalist writings in education. . . . But without Dionysus he will never make and remake a culture.
-- Jerome Bruner -
Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.
-- Jim Lovell -
In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time.
-- John Keats -
I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13 and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.
-- John Travolta -
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Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.
-- Jonathan Swift -
I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.
-- Linda M. Godwin -
It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away.
-- Lyndon B. Johnson -
Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word...
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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I suspect that even though the various questions are difficult and many, they are not as difficult and many as those we faced when we started the Apollo [space program] in 1961.
-- Neil Armstrong -
It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
-- Neil Armstrong -
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It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
-- Pablo Picasso -
Q: Prove God doesn’t exist. A: That’s a tough one. Show me how it’s done by proving Zeus and Apollo don’t exist, and I’ll use your method.
-- Pat Condell -
So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.
-- Paul Newman -
It's happened many times before. Usually it results in an exceptional and gifted human. Some of the greatest figures in Earth's history were actually the product of humans and the Loric, including Buddha, Aristotle, Julius Ceasar, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein... Aprodite, Apollo, Hermes, and Zeus were all real, and had one Loric parent
-- Pittacus Lore -
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I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired. I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette. It was all my fault.
-- Reed Hastings -
I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further.
-- Richard Dawkins -
I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.
-- Sevyn Streeter -
Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
-- Solomon Burke -
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The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.
-- Spider Robinson -
Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
-- Wally Schirra -
Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the flight controllers over that. It would try to fare its way like an airplane.
-- Wally Schirra -
He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one
-- Wally Schirra -
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A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.
-- Wally Schirra -
If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray -
I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!
-- Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it -- and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.
-- Don Alias -
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Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo, there is no such lack of information. Nevertheless, the flight will involve risks of great magnitude and probably risks that have not been foreseen.
-- Jerome F. Lederer -
My first hip-hop performance was at Carnegie Hall with Wyclef, ... I got a little feature and he announced me as the 'hip-hop violinist.' The next night I played at the Apollo.
-- Miri Ben-Ari -
We've got a bad fire let's get out . . . We're burning up.
-- Roger B. Chaffee