Wernher von Braun Quotes

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

Wernher von Braun

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• I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Future
  • Past

• Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Design
  • Shoes
  • Create

• I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Love
  • Song

• When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• You were born as the one you are.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • You
  • Born
  • Were

• I like spending time with my husband.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Time
  • Husband
  • Spending Time

• When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Play
  • Place

• Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Money
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Pretty
  • Show
  • Ever

• I started doing improv my sophomore year.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Doing
  • Year
  • Improv

• Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Simple
  • Stupid

• 'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Women
  • Intuition

• You always kind of feel like you're rolling the dice as an actor.

  

  Alice Ripley

• My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Life
  • Father

• I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.

  

  David Neeleman

• Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • Life
  • Great
  • Failure

• I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Free
  • Independent

• I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.

  

  Don Everly The Everly Brothers
  • Home
  • She
  • Song

• Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Work
  • Science

• Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.

  

  Georg Brandes
  • Science
  • Popular

• But if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would, indeed be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of the men of science soften the asperities of national hostility. Davy's remarks to Thomas Poole on accepting Napoleon's prize for the best experiment on Galvanism.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • War
  • Science
  • Governments

• I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out with.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Time
  • Good
  • Friends

• The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

  

  Wernher von Braun
  • Science
  • Planet
  • Planets