Apollo Quotes

How do you expect to get us to the Moon if you people can't even hook us up with a ground station?

The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god," I said. "That's not what I meant.

I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.

in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.

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.

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

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.

The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo,
because foreseeing his happiness in death,
he dies with singing and pleasure.

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

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.

There are two of them up here.

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

A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.

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.

It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.

Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

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.

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.

We've got a bad fire let's get out . . . We're burning up.

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.

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one

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.

Hey, we missed the whole thing.

Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

The flight was extremely normal . . . for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.

I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

Dreams like a podcast, Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff." "Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad. He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred." "A god named Fred?

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.

We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.

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.

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.

So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.

If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.

Roger. We've got you, we're go on that alarm.

Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

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.

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.

The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.

I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.

Apollo,
sacred guard of earth's true core,
Whence first came frenzied,
wild prophetic word.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone.

Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

Inscribed on the temple of Apollo