Rocket Quotes

“The rocket was beautiful. In conception it had been shaped by an artist to break a chain that had bound the human race ever since we first gained consciousness of earth's gravity and all it's analogs in suffering, failure and pain. It was at once a prayer sent heavenward and the answer to that prayer: Bear me away from this awful place.”
― Michael Chabon, Moonglow

“Well, good-bye: I have enjoyed our conversation very much, I assure you.”
“Conversation, indeed!” said the Rocket. “You have talked the whole time yourself. That is not conversation.”
“Somebody must listen,” answered the Frog, “and I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.”
― Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde Stories for Children

“Conversation, indeed!" said the Rocket. "You have talked the whole time yourself. That is not conversation."

"Somebody must listen," answered the Frog, "and I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Sam "Snowbow" Archambeau sat on his bunk and finally sharked his thumbnail through the sealed envelope marked, “Do not open until I blast off!” It had been inserted inside an outer envelope that had flown from Amsterdam to Cape Town to Christchurch to McMurdo Station to South Pole Station.
As he unfolded the red construction paper inside, Snowbow smiled at the incongruity of a rocket girl using snail mail to communicate her last Earthly message to him.

-- from the upcoming novel, MARS COLONY AGATHA: NIKKI RED by Jack Chaucer, 1-1-20”
― Jack Chaucer

“I was a teenager in school when the first space shuttle exploded.”
― Steven Magee

“Every time I see a USA rocket launch, I am reminded of the millions of disabled people that were denied their disability benefits in order to fund it.”
― Steven Magee

“Where you came from is merely stage one of the rocket that is your life. But stage one is absolutely necessary if you are going to fling a red Tesla out toward Mars.”
― J. Earp

“It goes right across the hood...a great big fuck-off rocket before our very noses.”
― Mike Dowling, Sergeant Rex: The Unbreakable Bond Between a Marine and His Military Working Dog

“I've ordered ice-cold ficoide in truffle vinaigrette. Ficoide is a rare kind of salad with thick fleshy leaves prettily arranged round a delicious pulpy stem. I don't know where you buy the stuff. At Chez moi I have ordinary lettuce and romaine lettuce, and also rocket which I toss into gravy because I've got an idea rocket is a meat-like plant: I'm keen to reconcile it with its animal tendencies. It's a waste because most people leave it on the side of the plate, shriveled and pathetic as if it were a failed garnish. Still, I press on with my attempted trans-categorization: I feel it's what the various foodstuffs expect of me, what I'm supposed to give to the world. Rocket with meat. Avocados with fruit. White wine with cheese. I realign friendships, cheat at Happy Families.”
― Agnès Desarthe, Chez Moi: A Novel

“Airplanes are the poor man’s satellites.”
― Steven Magee

“It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.”
― Wernher von Braun

“Suicide is as easy as riding a rocket into Heaven.”
― Steven Magee

“We are not going to Mars.”
― Steven Magee

“NASA is the civilian face of a military space program.”
― Steven Magee

“Out of 135 space shuttle missions, two were total losses.”
― Steven Magee

“Space shuttle Challenger was a total loss on its 10th flight.”
― Steven Magee

“Space shuttle Columbia was a total loss on its 28th flight.”
― Steven Magee

“It took 25 space shuttle flights for a total loss to occur.”
― Steven Magee

“The USA took a Nazi bombing project and turned it into NASA.”
― Steven Magee

“Rocket into Heaven.”
― Steven Magee

“I was not surprised to find the poor were protesting the extravagant expense of the Moon landing back in the 1960’s.”
― Steven Magee

“Every time I see a USA rocket launch, I sit there thinking ‘What an obscene waste of money’.”
― Steven Magee

“It is only a matter of time before the Space program kills a civilian with a piece of rocket or satellite debris.”
― Steven Magee

“Imagination is my rocket to outer Space!”
― Steven Magee

“He who seeks to reach the moon must first build his own rocket!”
― Rodrigue Rizk

“The Raptor engine is another advanced innovation, as it is the first full-flow staged combustion rocket engine ever flown and produces the highest combustion chamber pressure ever reached by an operational rocket engine (330 bars). The previous record holder did 290 to 300 bar in one mode of operation is the (Soviet's RD-701 engine) in the 1980s.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration

“Elon Musk hires smart people and let them figure solutions. At the founding of SpaceX, Musk hired various engineers to help build these would be novel rockets that would cost clients a fraction of the then going rate.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration

“We're building a rocket ship, why not add wings for extra flair! ”
― Dipti Dhakul

“Embrace the New Year with a mind as boundless as the universe itself; for within you resides a genius that, when rocket launched toward destiny, can rewrite the stars.”
― Dr. Tracey Bond

“Boeing is a global embarrassment!”
― Steven Magee