Apollo Quotes - Page 4

• Okay," I said. "Just a normal afternoon and two normal people." She nodded. "And so...hypothetically, if these to people likes each other, what would it take to get the stupid guy to kiss the girl, huh?" "Oh..." I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows-slow, dumb, and bright red. "Um.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Stupid, Kissing

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.262, Penguin UK

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

  Rick Riordan

  Dumb, Cows, Red

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• Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Home, Moon, Leaving

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.166, National Geographic Books

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• Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dream, Moon, America

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• I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Memories, Home, Average

  "Commentary: Let's aim for Mars". www.cnn.com. June 23, 2009.

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• We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Heart, Thinking, Space Flight

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• Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Moon, Technology, Men

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• Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.

  Jay Griffiths

  Ocean, Blue, Whales

  "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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• I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights." Now that we were safely down the mountain, her eyes had their usual angry look. "Don't be stupid." That explains why you freaked out on Apollo's bus. Why you didn't want to talk about it." She took a deep breath. Then she brushed the pine needles out of her hair. "If you tell anyone, I swear—" No, no," I said. "That's cool. It's just… the daughter of Zeus, the Lord of the Sky, afraid of heights?

  Rick Riordan

  Daughter, Stupid, Eye

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg Pull. Apollo has the best claim, but a sizeable minority support Pluto, ex-God of the Dead, on the grounds that he has a really sick sense of humour. How would it be, suggested the unidentified god, if first we tell them all to love their neighbour, pack in the killing and thieving, and be nice to each other. Then we let them start burning heretics.

  Tom Holt

  Nice, Sick, Support

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• 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

  Dream, Ears, Stuff

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• The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Sweet, Taken, Smell

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• I was born in 1958, the same year NASA was established, which I like to think of as not a coincidence. I was 11 when they landed on the moon, Apollo Eleven. And, of course, everybody in the whole world was watching that. But I can tell you, at that time, nobody ever asked a girl, 'Is that something you want to grow up and do?'

  Ellen Ochoa

  Girl, Growing Up, Moon

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• I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Artist, Thinking, Blood

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.202, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our minds can go no further. The human imagination is capable of no further expression of beauty than the carved owl of Athene, the archaic, marble serpent, the arrogant selfish head of the Acropolis Apollo.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Beauty, Selfish, Expression

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.327, New Directions Publishing

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• In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention, constraint, oppression. Dionysus is energy unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Apollo is law, history, tradition, the dignity and safety of custom and form. Dionysus is the new, exhilarating but rude, sweeping all away to begin again. Apollo is a tyrant, Dionysus is a vandal.

  Camille Paglia

  Law, Civilization, Tyrants

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.128, Yale University Press

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• Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead
  Is great Apollo; and the happier he

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dust, Long, Eternity

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1950). “Second April: and, The buck in the snow [and other poems]”

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• blue bead on the wick,
  there's that in me that
  burns and chills, blackening
  my heart with its soot,
  I think sometimes not Apollo heard me
  but a different god.

  Denise Levertov

  Heart, Thinking, Blue

  Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

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• At Delphi I prayed
  to Apollo
  that he maintain in me
  the flame of the poem
  and I drank of the brackish
  spring there.

  Denise Levertov

  Prayer, Spring, Flames

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.140, New Directions Publishing

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• Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

  Jonathan Swift

  Disease, Trade, Stills

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.615

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• I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Beach, Venice, Like You

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• James Brown's Live at the Apollo is not just a musical whiplash, it's a spiritual cleansing. You can just close your eyes and see him doing the splits, kicking the mic stand and doing a 360.

  Ted Nugent

  Spiritual, Eye, Musical

  "Ted Nugent & Henry Rollins: American Flag/Black Flag". Elmore Magazine Interview, www.elmoremagazine.com. November 3, 2013.

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• Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?

  Buzz Aldrin

  Helping Others, Moon, Goal

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• I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Country, Children, Museums

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• There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Math, Technology, Engineering

  "Buzz Aldrin's Case For A 'Mission To Mars'". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. May 9, 2013.

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