Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, January, Speech at (18 January 2016)
Specific home run calls
Variant: "A Damon dinger!*" (Johnny Damon)
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, January, Speech at (18 January 2016)
“Rocket ships
are exciting
but so are roses
on a birthday.”
Leonard Nimoy (1931–2015) American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer
Source: Come Be With Me: A Collection of Poems
“What is pride? A whizzing rocket
That would emulate a star.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
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.”
Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) German, later an American, aerospace engineer and space architect
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.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
“It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.”
James Rollins book The Judas Strain
Source: The Judas Strain
“Miles above the Earth we know,
Fancy's rocket roars.”
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) American science fiction writer
"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.”
Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
Fragment of Elon Musk's tweet (19 November 2017) https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/932322853009080320