1.
How do you expect to get us to the Moon if you people can't even hook us up with a ground station?
Gus Grissom
2.
The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.
Buzz Aldrin
3.
Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god," I said. "That's not what I meant.
Rick Riordan
4.
I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.
Gene Kranz
5.
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.
Vladimir Nabokov
6.
We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.
Edgar Mitchell
7.
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.
Pat Condell
9.
My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
10.
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.
Jerome Bruner
11.
The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo,
because foreseeing his happiness in death,
he dies with singing and pleasure.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
12.
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
Pablo Picasso
13.
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.
David R. Brower
15.
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
Pittacus Lore
16.
It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
Neil Armstrong
17.
A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.
Wally Schirra
18.
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.
Alan Shepard
19.
Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.
Jim Lovell
20.
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.
Gene Cernan
21.
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.
Neil Armstrong
22.
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.
Iamblichus
23.
He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one
Wally Schirra
24.
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.
Wally Schirra
26.
I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.
Rick Riordan
28.
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!'
Alan Bean
30.
The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
Ahmet Ertegun
31.
The flight was extremely normal . . . for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.
Pete Conrad
32.
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.
Bayard Taylor
33.
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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
34.
So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.
Paul Newman
35.
If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.
William Makepeace Thackeray
36.
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?
Rick Riordan
37.
Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.
Charles Duke
38.
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.
Spider Robinson
39.
We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.
John F. Kennedy
40.
Roger. We've got you, we're go on that alarm.
Charles Duke
41.
Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
Wally Schirra
42.
Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
Solomon Burke
43.
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.
Jerome F. Lederer
44.
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.
William Shakespeare
45.
I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.
Charles Duke
46.
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.
Don Alias
47.
I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13 and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.
John Travolta
48.
I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.
Friedrich Schiller
50.
Sometimes we don’t realize how destructive our creations are until it’s too late. And sometimes those creations we make turn on us and seek only to kill us even though we loved and succored them. (Apollo)
Sherrilyn Kenyon