Rocket Quotes: Inspiring Words for Sky-High Success

"It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science"

"Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty"

John Carmack, Scientist

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers"

Joss Whedon, Writer

"Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good"

Al Franken, Comedian

"It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!"

Lewis Black, Comedian

"Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship"

Gregory Harrison, Actor

"To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne"

Lee De Forest, Inventor

"Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option"

Wilson Greatbatch, Inventor

"If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next"

James Lee Burke, Author

"The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident"

Sally Ride, Astronaut

"The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact"

Alan Shepard, Astronaut

"The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones"

Hassan Nasrallah, Revolutionary

"I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running"

Gary Sinise, Actor

"Believe in God, for with the grace of God the American rockets will go astray and we will be saved"

Mohammed Omar, Clergyman

"When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on"

Michael P. Anderson, Astronaut

"My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs"

Johnny Ramone, Musician

"Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!"

Jon Heder, Actor

"One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die"

Bruce Cockburn, Musician

"My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils"

Dante Hall, Athlete

"If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added"

Hermann Oberth, Scientist

"It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before"

Douglas Trumbull, Director

"Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received"

John Boehner, Politician

"I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer"

Cindy Crawford, Model

"I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida"

Daisy Berkowitz, Musician

"Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!"

Adam Savage, Entertainer

"My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston"

Lionel Blue, Clergyman

"I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist