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

• 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

• We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.

  

  Jerry Costello

• Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Real
  • Science

• We're gone for 280, almost 300 days a year. So 70 to 80 days I'm home every year. Being an artist, you just gotta be ready to miss certain things, like Halloween and all these kind of things that you used to be able to be free for. Birthdays, all this kind of stuff.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Home
  • Free
  • Halloween

• There's nothing wrong with dreaming about accomplishing great things, as long as that desire isn't focused on one's own glory.

  

  Chip Ingram
  • Desire
  • Glory
  • Dreaming

• The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Time
  • Science
  • Purpose

• La pobreza ajena me basta para sentirme pobre; la mía no me basta.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• This is becoming a real problem. There's competition to keep costs down and prices low. That comes at the expense of doing due diligence, market research, and having focus groups test products.

  

  Chris Barnes Cannibal Corpse
  • Problem
  • Competition
  • Costs

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

  

  Wernher von Braun
  • Science
  • Planet
  • Planets