Fourth Rate Launched

Famous quotes containing the words fourth, rate and/or launched:

“July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo—slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.”
—Bernard Cooper (b. 1936)

“We’re designing a new spacecraft to be launched and there are no women. Where are they? I wonder. I worry.”
—Andrea Dupree (b. 1939)