Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Logsdon

The fact that it comes at a particularly inopportune moment is unfortunate, but either we are serious about long-term commitments like this or not. Nobody is asking for more money. Apollo was done as a warlike mobilization of national resources and there's no reason to do that now.

Ellen Stofan

So many people I talk to who work in technology, you ask them, 'What got you interested in science?' and those from my generation say, 'The Apollo landings.'

Karl Schroeder

I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

Mary Cantrell

There are more computer circuits on the radio of a new car than there were computer circuits on Apollo missions. These days everything is interconnected with computers. So unless you understand physics, you're not going to be able to fix a car.

Stewart O'Nan

Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.

Fred Haise

Given that the movie had to condense four days into two hours, and given that the communications were sometimes rather tedious and technical, it was pretty accurate, ... Apollo 13.

William Gambler

He got a chance to go on American Bandstand and travel up to New York to the Apollo and so forth. He still didn't make a whole lot of money, but at least his name was spreading.

Karen Karch

Our hitting was good. We put the ball in play and hit the ball hard. It had been awhile since we swept a team. We are hoping to finish strong in the Apollo and pick ourselves up a little bit.

Andy Weir

I was born too late to experience Apollo 11, though I do trek to Dad's house every time there's some space event. There's something awesome about crossing your fingers and watching a tense Mission Control room do their thing.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

Dianne Wiest

I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Christopher Bailey

There are some elements over there that I feel once there is light and activity...they will go away.

Anton Corbijn

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

Lydia Leonard

Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.

Billy Gibbons

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

Denise Levertov

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Nikki Cox

I'm a McDonald's girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Bill Hall

Several students have called and said, 'I have a video, do you want it?'

Edward Gramlich

I think it is more than several weeks for me!

Kevin Jenkins

We take 'em from anywhere. But there are several institutions similar to us that play basketball.

Matthew Lillard

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

Mayor Hassig

There are several threads here of futures you can choose.

Luiz Scolari

There are several teams, and one of them could be Corinthians.

Noam Chomsky

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it.