Specific home run calls
Variant: "A Damon dinger!*" (Johnny Damon)
2010s, 2016, January, Speech at (18 January 2016)
“Rocket ships
are exciting
but so are roses
on a birthday.”
Source: Come Be With Me: A Collection of Poems
Rocket Summer (1950)
The Martian Chronicles (1950)
“What is pride? A whizzing rocket
That would emulate a star.”
Inscriptions Supposed to be Found in and near a Hermit's Cell, l. 11 (1818).
“The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.”
Remark to a colleague after the first V-2 rocket hit London (September 1944), as quoted in Apollo in Perspective : Spaceflight Then and Now (1999) by Jonathan Allday, p. 85
“Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.”
“Miles above the Earth we know,
Fancy's rocket roars.”
"Imagination" in America Sings (1949)
Context: Miles above the Earth we know,
Fancy's rocket roars. Below,
Here and Now are needles which
Sew a pattern black as pitch,
Waiting for the rocket's light.
“Rocket tech applied to a car opens up revolutionary possibilities.”
Fragment of Elon Musk's tweet (19 November 2017) https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/932322853009080320
