“What is pride? A whizzing rocket
That would emulate a star.”

“Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!”

“If both sides reduced their long-range missiles by 50%, SDI would be an unacceptable threat to the remaining Soviet rocket forces.”

“Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.”

“What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?”

“Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?”

“I have read a lot about it and I watched it and Liberty University, like a rocket ship, a really great rocket ship.”

“You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns -
And the public wants what the public gets - but I don't get what this society wants.”

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

“"It's a Johnny rocket!*" (Johnny Damon)”