Famous quotes containing the words high, power and/or rockets:
“Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Do not doubt a woman’s power to aid; no toil
Can daunt a pure affection.”
—Silius Italicus (26–101)
“The Thirties dreamed white marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. After the war, everyone had a car—no wings for it—and the promised superhighway to drive it down, so that the sky itself darkened, and the fumes ate the marble and pitted the miracle crystal.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)