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A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse.


Homer Hickam

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HOMER HICKAM Anytime there is frustration, it lights a fuse for anger.
EPHREM FERNANDEZ It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
HOMER HICKAM You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your sta...
HOMER HICKAM The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY You Cannot Fly Like An Eagle If You Wont Stretch Your Wings!
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE When you fly to the moon you don't need a rocket. You just need the imagination!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS There was no reason to be down there unless you?re fiddling with the fuse.
DAN SPENCER What is it that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle, such as a Redstone...
THOMAS WOLFE That's a big fuse. When the fuse blew, it welded some wiring together.
STEPHANE DUJARRIC To be honest, unless you rocket straight to stardom as a gorgeous young vampire, you can spend a lot...
ADAM RAYNER One day there was a fly and a feather fly said to the feather buzzing about i am better than you are...
GARY F EVANS... A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the ...
JACK HANDY I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.
MICHAEL LEUNIG Our lights are probably on until 3 in the morning because there is always somebody here doing someth...
ADAM HOWARD When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark To captivate her favor...
JAMES MONTGOMERY When you will, they wont, when you wont, they will.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
CHARLES OLSON There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it w...
MARILYN MONROE Anybody can be somebody unless they choose to be nobody.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Most stars just fuse hydrogen into helium, but larger stars can fuse helium into other elements. Sti...
SAM KEAN With self-service, customers generally fly through. It will save time and money, unless the order is...
HARRY BALZER If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art...
ANSARI A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Af...
LAKHDAR BRAHIMI Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN I watch reality TV, but unless you have been part of that crew, unless you've sort of been immer...
DHANI JONES The issue of pollution has become a blasting fuse for social instability.
ZHOU SHENGXIAN Be as thou wast wont to be.
See as thou wast wont to see.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronau...
CHRIS HADFIELD Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else- unless it is an enemy
ALBERT EINSTEIN 'The Odyssey,' by Homer,
STEPHEN COONTS I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.
FLUME The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
EMILY DICKINSON The Possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination
EMILY DICKINSON They've got a short fuse and their reactions are exaggerated.
KEITH DELAPLANE Homer was a true poet. He made the gods ridiculous.
MARTY RUBIN If you want to learn something about fly fishing, there's somebody that knows something about every ...
KAREN BRAND Until you see that first pitch or field that first ball, you're still going to have some jitters.
ROCKET WHEELER Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
MARILYN VOS SAVANT If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket ...
JAMES LEE BURKE Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she p...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Oh my, ... If you're going to give up a homer, you might as well give it up like that. That was a lo...
RON GARDENHIRE You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning a some...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER I wont be labeled as average
RACHEL JOY SCOTT We had missteps that we wont repeat.
ASAKO MIYATA I wont eat anything green
KURT COBAIN You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. If you stay in your comfort zo...
LIGHTS POXLIETNER We are built with a passion in our heart for the things we are meant to do.
LIGHTS POXLIETNER It's not rocket science. It's social science.
CLEMENT MOK Never hug the drugs when around you fuse your brain plugs.
ARSLAN AHMAD (Homer) There is the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way! (Bart) Isn't that the wrong wa...
HOMER SIMPSON Books wont stay banned. They wont burn. Ideas wont go to jail. In the long run of history, the censo...
ALFRED WHITNEY GRISWOLD I'll take a three-run homer over a walk.
BRANDON PHILLIPS He truly is a rocket scientist.
RICK BRUBAKER We wont refuse someone a ride if they don't take the survey,
PATRICK COOK We don't say anything about the book unless somebody asks. But if people ask, I'm certainly frank ab...
ALLAN KELIN The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
ED KOCH The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
EDWARD KOCH The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse
ED KOCH The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse
ED KOCH We wont get something without giving something, We wont give something without getting something, an...
LIONY LUMOMBO VON TIRAMISU What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (Homer Electric) has been through the plant,
RON MILLER Why don't those stupid idiots let me in their crappy club for jerks?
HOMER SIMPSON I have had it with that stuff. I have a very short fuse with that stuff.
MIKE HOLMGREN Sometimes to change a situation you are in requires you to take a giant leap. But, you won't be able...
SUZY KASSEM Nature is wont to hide herself.
HERACLITUS When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hangi...
MICHAEL P. ANDERSON Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.
HORACE I've always said acting is 90 percent luck, and you just have to be ready when that luck appears. To...
BECKY FLY Tosh is a natural. He has comic skills that you rarely see. It's a gift; you either have it or you d...
BECKY FLY I think the appeal is the general description of South, where life is slower and there is more inter...
BECKY FLY Wine is wont to show the mind of man.
THEOGNIS Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.
UNKNOWN I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW If I could tell the world just one thing it would be we're all okay, and not to worry cause worry is...
JEWEL My boss told me "It's not rocket science." Yeah, almost everything that exists is not rocket science...
ANONYMOUS It's not rocket science to make a movie.
KATIE ASELTON What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.
KYLE CHANDLER Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
GEORGE HERBERT Be as thou wast wont to be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Mach diamonds are a rocket girl's best friend.
VANNA BONTA I found a can of Chinese Rocket Fuel.
JACK BURKE Homer no function beer well without.
DAN CASTELLANETA An electrician was called and ultimately determined that (the) problem was bigger than a blown fuse ...
KATE JOHNSON Alright Brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you. But lets just do this, and I can get back to...
HOMER SIMPSON Housing is a question of the will. It's not rocket science.
CONNIE PASCALE [Saying] it doesn't take a rocket scientist ... ratchet up the pressure.
FRED UPTON Whatever flies your rocket.
ASHLEY DAWN MCGOUGH It's the first game-winning homer I've ever hit.
DAVID BENTROTT Trying is the first step towards failure". - Homer Simpson
HOMER SIMPSON Unless she scares the hell out of you, blows the cobwebs from your mind, scorches your heart with pa...
SHANNON L. ALDER It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
CHAIM POTOK I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.
MIKE O'MALLEY I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT They have to be able to fuse technology with business processes and the role of a given, specific us...
BRUCE CLEVELAND What else do you expect from a Toledo Rocket?
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More Homer Hickam

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
HOMER HICKAM I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to ...
HOMER HICKAM You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your sta...
HOMER HICKAM It is not right to glory in the slain.
HOMER Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.
HOMER The rose Dawn might have found them weeping still had not grey-eyed Athena slowed the night when nig...
HOMER There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, ...
HOMER For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother
HOMER The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.
HOMER Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
HOMER Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
HOMER Light is the task where many share the toil.
HOMER And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
HOMER A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
HOMER Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
HOMER I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
HOMER How vain, without the merit, is the name.
HOMER Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a sing...
HOMER Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.
HOMER A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly.
HOMER At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,
Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:
Then,...
HOMER For too much rest becomes a pain.
HOMER There will be killing till the score is paid.
HOMER Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
HOMER The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
HOMER Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
HOMER The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gen...
HOMER Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught th...
HOMER Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
HOMER Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
HOMER The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, ...
HOMER The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
HOMER A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
HOMER Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.
HOMER The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
HOMER For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their father...
HOMER There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man ...
HOMER A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
HOMER Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
HOMER It is not good to have a rule of many.
HOMER To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those wh...
HOMER In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
HOMER Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from th...
HOMER True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
HOMER Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
HOMER Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
HOMER Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
HOMER Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
HOMER Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
HOMER The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
HOMER Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
HOMER There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
HOMER Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
HOMER But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp con...
HOMER Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint ...
HOMER …There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—mag...
HOMER Winged words.
HOMER At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince!...
HOMER It is a wise child that knows his own father.
HOMER A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
HOMER The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
HOMER The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
HOMER You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
HOMER Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
HOMER We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
HOMER There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the...
HOMER The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
HOMER So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor ...
HOMER Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the ...
HOMER May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a ho...
HOMER Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they th...
HOMER It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
HOMER It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You...
HOMER I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood ...
HOMER Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
HOMER Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee co...
HOMER Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, a...
HOMER It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
HOMER It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
HOMER It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
HOMER It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his de...
HOMER If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
HOMER I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
HOMER He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when h...
HOMER He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
HOMER Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the sam...
HOMER A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
HOMER A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, w...
HOMER A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and...
HOMER A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
HOMER It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to ...
HOMER I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
HOMER Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
HOMER Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
HOMER Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. F...
HOMER By their own follies they perished, the fools.
HOMER All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
HOMER All men have need of the gods.
HOMER A small rock holds back a great wave.
HOMER Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both...
HOMER You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has giv...
HOMER Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselv...
HOMER There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.
HOMER There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
HOMER Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
HOMER Do not mourn the dead with the belly
HOMER Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.
HOMER And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
HOMER All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious
HOMER Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told s...
HOMER Far and near friends knew this house; for he whose home it was had much acquaintance in the world
HOMER The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
HOMER Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that s...
HOMER No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he ...
HOMER Hektor, argue me no agreements. I cannot forgive you.
As there are no trustworthy oaths between...
HOMER Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,
even so I will endure…
For al...
HOMER But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, nev...
HOMER Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do every...
HOMER And overpowered by memory
Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely
For man - killing ...
HOMER We ask that (employees) take care of your personal business as needed. Should you require more time ...
HOMER Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across...
HOMER Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
HOMER How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
HOMER I'm satisfied. It's straight, ... But it's just so hot, and I'm just so frustrated.
HOMER There is nothing nothing more nobler or more admirable than two people who see eye to eye keeping ho...
HOMER Wisdom never lies
HOMER By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
HOMER Achilles absent, was Achilles still
HOMER A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly
HOMER …and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you ...
HOMER Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet ...
HOMER Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.
HOMER Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
HOMER Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing, and dancing sooner than war
HOMER [I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at ...
HOMER He went off without a word along the shore of the sounding sea.
HOMER For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and...
HOMER They would eat its blossoms and stalks in the spring, ... And use its fiber to make rabbit nets, san...
HOMER Even his griefs are a joy, long after, to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured
HOMER Too many kings can ruin an army
HOMER But when he spoke, that great voice of his poured out of his chest in words like the snowflakes of w...
HOMER By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember
HOMER [B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals.
The sinews no longer hold the fle...
HOMER Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying togeth...
HOMER down from his brow
she ran his curls
like thick hyacinth clusters
full of blooms
HOMER Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.
HOMER These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them,
or he can enjoy listening to storie...
HOMER Immortals are never alien to one another.
HOMER So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all....
HOMER out of sight,out of mind
HOMER Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.
HOMER And empty words are evil.
HOMER Now from his breast into the eyes the ache
of longing mounted, and he wept at last,
his de...
HOMER some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind
HOMER Each man delights in the work that suits him best.
HOMER My name is Nobody.
HOMER Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themsel...
HOMER Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their mis...
HOMER Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death
HOMER Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.
HOMER A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a t...
HOMER There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
HOMER Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive...
HOMER The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy ...
HOMER …but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
HOMER There was one on Kentucky Avenue that sunk so much that a lady couldn't even get out of her driveway...
HOMER When your design stinks, Engineering 101 says admit your mistakes and go back to the drawing board,
HOMER After the event, even a fool is wise
HOMER Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen but his country's cause
HOMER I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another
HOMER The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
HOMER What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their tr...
HOMER ...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glit...
HOMER For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he m...
HOMER Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
HOMER Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HOMER I don't want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don't want to see th...
WINSLOW HOMER Roads are just a suggestion, like pants.
HOMER SIMPSON The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.
WINSLOW HOMER I do not care to put out any ideas for pictures. They are too valuable and can be appropriated by an...
WINSLOW HOMER That's another way we can support the program.
CARL HOMER The exponential costs of Medicaid are increasing at a rate they probably can't afford.
CARL HOMER You can't play with one hand in this business at all. You have to be really focused.
CARL HOMER At this time we're not prepared to devote the kind of resources needed to succeed. Not in the forese...
CARL HOMER Only once in the last thirty years have I made a duplicate, and that was a watercolor from my oil pi...
WINSLOW HOMER Mmm... Organized Crime
HOMER SIMPSON 'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?
HOMER SIMPSON Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.
WINSLOW HOMER You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of o...
WINSLOW HOMER The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and...
HOMER SIMPSON I wouldn't go across the street to see a Bouguereau. His pictures look false; he does not get th...
WINSLOW HOMER It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to squeeze in 8 ...
HOMER SIMPSON Mr. C. Klackner has for sale four etchings etched by myself, at the expense of two years' time &...
WINSLOW HOMER Trying is the first step towards failure". - Homer Simpson
HOMER SIMPSON Why don't those stupid idiots let me in their crappy club for jerks?
HOMER SIMPSON Jebus, Buddha, I love you alllllllllllllllllll
HOMER SIMPSON Stupid Flounders!
HOMER SIMPSON We have learn't a very valuable leasson today: it's better to watch stuff then to do stuff.
HOMER SIMPSON Just because i don't listen doesn't mean i don't understand.
HOMER SIMPSON If you're going to get mad at me everytime I do something stupid then I guess I'll have to stop doin...
HOMER SIMPSON