The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.
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.
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.
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.
Hey Ridley, that Machometer is acting screwy. It just went off the scale on me.
Have you ever had one of those moments when time just freezes? You know, when the world suddenly goes deathly still, and you could hear a pin drop, and the squishing sound your heart makes is so loud in your ears you feel like youre drowning in blood, and you stand there in that suspended moment and die a thousand deaths, but not really, and the moment passes and dumps you out on the other side of it, with your mouth hanging open, and an erased blackboard where your mind used to be?
I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes ma'am.
Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.
The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.