"Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started."

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Source : Jay Barbree, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton (2011). “Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings”, p.130, Open Road Media

Alan Shepard

#Airplane Quotes #Roger Quotes #Clock Quotes

“Apple Pay is forever changing the way we pay for things.”
“The LPGA is basically corporate America's dinner party, and they can invite whomever they want. They're not ready for people getting up and making declarations. The bottom line is corporate America is pretty homophobic.”
“Sir. My lord. Master Roydon." The young man blurted out most available titles except for "Your Majesty" and "Prince of Darkness." These were implied nonetheless.”
“I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?”
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”
“It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.”

Source : "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.
“I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.”

Source : "Today" (London, England : 1893), Volumes 16-17, 1897.
“Let love simply bloom... and it is unstoppable.”

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