Pete Conrad famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last thirty years. Reflecting on the upcoming 30th anniversary of Apollo 11.
-- Pete Conrad

#Fun #Years #Time Flies
[Answering whether there was life in other worlds, he said there probably was.] After all, there's plenty of unearthly looking things moving around in my refrigerator, so there's always a chance of life springing up almost anywhere.
-- Pete Conrad

#Life #Moving #Other Worlds
I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing.
-- Pete Conrad

#Thinking #Weather #Needs
The flight was extremely normal . . . for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.
-- Pete Conrad

#Interesting #Firsts #Normal
I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.
-- Pete Conrad

#Moon #Nasa #Treated
I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.
-- Pete Conrad

#Thinking #Two #Space
If you can’t be good, be colorful.
-- Pete Conrad

#Be Good #Ifs #Colorful

It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.
It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.
I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.
Tempus fugit (time flies).
- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!
When youâ€™re engaged in what you love to do, itâ€™s like driving in the fast lane. Time flies by and more roads open up to you, alternate routes you may not have even known existed.

Pete Conrad famous quotes

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