We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.
You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of serious situations. And that's the way the X-1 was.
Never wait for trouble.
The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.
I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter.
In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.
And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way. . . . . . . . His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds. Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.
Shopping and buying and getting and having comprise the Great American Addiction. No one is immune. When the underclass riots in this country they don't kill policemen and politicians, they steal merchandise. How embarrassing.
The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it to be 'He did very little harm'. And that's not easy. Most people seem to me to do a great deal of harm. If I could be remembered as having done very little, that would suit me.