The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.
The eyes are the landing strip to the heart.
A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.
I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation. " Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.
Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.
When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.
But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were allowed to set foot inside the White House, while Michael Collins was forced to drive around in circles outside.
I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.
Expect to get more than you expected [from Crash Landing project]. Expect more than a mixtape.
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.
The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.
Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.
I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
Stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.
We were looking at weather and our relationships with weather. It goes to a few other places, and I don't want to spoil anything, so I won't go into it, but it's about a willingness to expose oneself a little bit more and share something openly and honestly. It's more than just landing tricks. Moving forward, this is just another stepping stone.
By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.
I miss being in my home country; here, I'm always a foreigner. America is, of course, built of people who are not from here. But going home, even just landing at Arlanda, the Stockholm airport, I think, "This is where I'm from. These people are my people. "
