Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Gibbs

A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

Nayvadius Cash

At first, Hendrix went and became a superstar in London, but if he walked past the Apollo in Harlem, no one would know who he was. I'm the hip-hop version of him.

Buzz Aldrin

The achievements of Apollo were so bold and our subsequent efforts so timid that the energy of those years seems like a youthful dream,

Scott Horowitz

The Apollo program was very goal-driven. Get people to the moon. Get them back safely. Mission done. The big difference with the (new) exploration vision is that the moon is not the goal. The moon is a steppingstone.

Mark Kelly

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.

John Logsdon

It has several elements to it. One is to say that the people who did Apollo were pretty smart,

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.

Eric Schmidt

Imagine having a wide selection of images from the Apollo space mission at your fingertips whenever you want it.

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.

Thomas Friedman

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

Giles Foden

The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.

Rick Garcia

The political world now recognizes that there is a gay and lesbian vote. Our numbers are significant and we can make a difference in these races.

Brittany Snow

If I don't like what I'm wearing, you can see it on my face in any picture right away. It makes a big difference when you feel like you're wearing your style, and it's something that you picked out, or you feel really good in it.

Benjamin Rush

Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.

Bill Bryson

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

Scott Pischea

That was huge. We started hitting some free throws towards the end and that was the difference in the game.

Larry Wall

That was huge, in a 7-7 game to give us great field position. That was probably the difference in the football game right there.

John Baldwin

That was the difference tonight, levels. We've been getting the same levels all season, but not here.

Jim Adams

We have a mission to accomplish. Their first obligation is to their employer.

Deb Henderson

It didn't stop what our mission is for the season.

Steve Squyres

Today is day 591 of our 90-day mission to Mars.

David Kim

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

Charles Studd

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Charles Studd

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Terri Smith

We want them to know missions are not just something in Africa; they can be done right next door.

David Brainerd

Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

David Brainerd

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

Carl Sagan

A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible that the future of human civilization depends on the receipt of interstellar messages.

Carl Sagan

In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

William Shakespeare

And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

William Shakespeare

My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.

William Shakespeare

Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.

Kirk Shireman

We can return to the moon and ultimately to Mars.

E. F. Schumacher

After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.

Gordon Bulloch

We are over the moon for the win, not just today's team but the whole squad,

Joe Carroll

We are over the moon at the news.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Bud Selig

We have the toughest program now in American sports, ... and I'm proud of that.

Dana Gioia

We wanted to make sure the program could work as broadly as possible, so we wanted to test it in more challenging markets.

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Jonathan Brandis

I was in a theater program when I was about 6 years old. I didn't like it as much as most actors do. Which is probably why I never went back to it.

Beverly Thomas

We realize that not every program is going to be at the top of the list. Different programs have different appeals. We try to have something that everyone will enjoy.

Robert Redford

We don't program (the festival) for commerciality. We program for diversity.

Mayor Lederer

Unfortunately, the program is a victim of its own success, and as result my description of it would be a program in crisis.

Henry Spencer

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

Lisa Williams

But all you really need to get started is a software program to record audio.

Bill Bradley

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

Maurice Maeterlinck

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

Diane von Furstenberg

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.

David Suzuki

The event of creation did not take place so many eons ago, astronomically or biologically speaking. Creation is taking place every moment of our lives.

Cesare Pavese

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Alan Parker

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you experience your wisdom and the power of things as they are, together, as one, then you have access to tremendous vision and power in the world. You find that you are inherently connected to your own being. That is discovering magic.

Chogyam Trungpa

When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world.

Cher Wang

If you have a vision, no matter how difficult things are, everything just becomes a process.