Wernher von Braun Quotes

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

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• Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Force

• I would love to coach. I'm not saying I'm qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Try
  • Saying
  • Coach

• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Get

• You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Want
  • You
  • Stock

• The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly
  • Thousand

• What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Why
  • Home
  • Mars

• taking advantage of what we put together in that Saturn 5 rocket. If we had chosen to put wings on that Saturn, we might have been on the way. But then the Russians might have got to the moon first.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Together
  • Moon
  • Russians

• Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Mars
  • Radar
  • Rocket

• Two seconds are a thousand years.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Years
  • Two
  • Thousand

• Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Achieve

• When I was doing Dobie Gillis, I got blasted off to the moon with a chimp in a rocket, and I landed on a deserted tropic island. That should have told me something was coming.

  

  Bob Denver
  • Moon
  • Island
  • Rocket

• I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part.

  

  George Clooney
  • Persons
  • Roles
  • Comment

• The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Intelligent
  • Brave
  • Thousand

• We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Work
  • Things
  • Thousand

• Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

  

  Socrates
  • Problem
  • Become
  • Ignorant

• A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

  

  William Petty
  • Soul
  • Effects
  • Thousand

• A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Pay
  • Kissing

• I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Brother
  • Thousand
  • Quantity

• I was actually qualified to be an art teacher, but I didn't want to teach.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Teacher
  • Teach
  • Qualified

• Even if somebody is maybe a little less qualified, you can bring them in, you can teach them, and it will also make your work better because you'll have different perspectives. Even if somebody is less talented, they're coming at it from a completely different perspective, and that helps your work.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Work
  • Qualified
  • Perspectives

• If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies. Pony, what a funny word. Say it, pony. PO-KNEE. Now ah've made myself giddy with delight. Towards the ponies *laughs*

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Animal
  • Laughing
  • Delight

• I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • World
  • Discipline
  • Comfortable

• It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

  

  Wernher von Braun
  • Thousand
  • Rocket
  • Qualified