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The Eagle has landed. -- Neil Armstrong
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. -- Neil Armstrong
A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. -- Nancy Gibbs
My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day. -- Craig Brown
Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum. -- George Ayittey
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. -- Stephen Hawking
You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes. -- Michelle Kwan
The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it. -- Francis Ford Coppola
I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there. -- Israel Broussard
Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never! -- William Pitt
As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home. -- Buzz Aldrin
Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that. -- Indra Nooyi
A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back. -- Christine Lahti
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. -- Charlie Chaplin
I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids. -- Marcus Samuelsson
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind. -- Orville Wright
I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men. -- Christa McAuliffe
The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward. -- Buzz Aldrin
Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events. -- Joshua Foer
My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table. -- M.I.A.
Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also spent his time in public service, not in jail, and his passing was marked by world-wide encomiums. He ended his days as a celebrated explorer rather than a royal inconvenience. -- Seth Shostak
The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work. -- Richard Jefferies
I put my life in danger every time I do some of these demonstrations, whether it's in the audience hanging upside down or on the stage. We now have a lot of dangerous stunts where anything can go wrong. In fact, I have fallen two stories and landed on the stage, so I am well aware of the dangers. -- Criss Angel
I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy - a boarding school in Michigan - for a year, and then I went to college for a year at The Boston Conservatory and landed the 'Spring Awakening' tour midway through my freshman year, which was pretty cool. -- Kimiko Glenn
Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's landed somewhere in between. It tries to keep the sins hidden away and outwardly present itself as a defender of American virtues: justice, individual freedom, and the power of one innocent soul to save the world. -- Hanna Rosin
I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do. -- Evel Knievel
We counted 19 missiles that landed in a small area of Baghdad. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand. -- Richard Harding Davis
We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us". -- Malcolm X
They landed at Simon's feet. "Take your clothes and go!" Isabelle shouted. -- Cassandra Clare
I know by the way the punch landed, he wouldn't get up. -- Sergio Martinez
My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race. -- Jimi Hendrix
They [German princes] made a pact with the devil and landed in hell. -- Adolf Hitler
We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown. -- Nickolas Ashford
successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink. -- Lisa Alther
This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap. -- Charles S. Dutton
When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism. -- Zora Neale Hurston
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! -- George Bernard Shaw
I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable. -- Michael Musto
The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo. -- Markus Zusak
The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car -- Rick Riordan
If a great comedy landed on my doorstep, I would find it hard to say no. -- Eric Bana
The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head. -- Scott Ritter
There are hundreds of credible reports, many with multiple witnesses, of humanoids in association with landed spacecraft. -- Steven M. Greer
I met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip -- Groucho Marx
Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. -- Noam Chomsky
The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault -- Brandon Mull
My advice is flip a coin. If you regret the way it landed, then go with your gut. -- Justin Kan
Actually, I tossed it nicely, landed nicely, like airplane. No warning, beautiful. That's the art of throwing racquets. -- Goran Ivanisevic
If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here! -- Kevin Starr
I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me, -- Charles Ponzi
Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent. -- Meg Wolitzer
What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly. -- Mike Yaconelli
Freedom was taken away from my family until we landed in America and it was given back to us. -- Andy Garcia
Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history. -- Thuy Trang
We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl. -- John Green
We're all clichÃ©s, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role. -- Jonathan Tropper
Well, lucky you, you've landed in the right nest. Come, come, follow me, young hatchling." -Keeper of the chronicles (Alister)" -- Candace Knoebel
I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees, -- Ryan Reynolds
The Devil got landed with a shitty job, he has to deal with assholes everyday, he's probably bored as hell. -- Gerard Way
I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting. -- Gaspard Ulliel
When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary. -- Jane Fonda
Look at where I landed, you would think I planned it. I'm just doin me and you can never understand it. -- Drake
I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions. -- Lindsay Hartley
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were. -- Don Marquis
I watched my head rolling on the floor. It landed face up and a big tear came out of one eye. -- Shirley MacLaine
Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time. -- Rod Serling
I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.' -- Lindsay Hartley
I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s. -- Stanley Bing
on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future. -- Lauren Oliver
Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea. -- Harrison Birtwistle
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I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon. -- Arthur Goldberg
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers. -- Chauncey Depew
No more Lastrygonians." Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep. -- Rick Riordan
You should be more careful. You could have broken your neck or as big as you are landed on someone and killed them. (Tory) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon. -- Doug Rader
When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable. -- Alice Morse Earle
I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles. -- Chazz Palminteri
Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me. -- Zhang Xin
He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. "You're black." "I prefer canine-American," said Total. -- James Patterson
The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay. -- George Grey
The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital. -- David Frum
[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors. -- Al Pacino
My mother was a very elegant woman. When a flying saucer landed on the lawn, she turned it over to see if it was Wedgwood. -- Joan Rivers
Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it. -- Viktor E. Frankl
The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world. -- Grant Morrison
I'd gotten to the place where I wanted to quit using drugs but couldn't and finally I landed in that prison cell where everything was cut. -- Christian Hosoi
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. -- John Locke
I got my bearings, I began to focus. My mother was very supportive. When I came back to New York I landed a job at Hot 97. -- Angie Martinez
Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries. -- Herman Gorter
The cultural problem was 'the fallacy of insignificance', and it was a philosophical form of this fallacy that had somehow landed existentialism in a cul de sac. -- Colin Wilson
He landed 10 feet below with a sickening crunch-i'm guessing his enhancements didn't allow him to bounce back up like a ball. we call that a design flaw. -- James Patterson
The only group of Atlanteans that was truly successful in transplanting their knowledge to a new location was the group that landed in what is now Egypt. -- Frederick Lenz
The only group of Atlanteans that was truly successful in transplanting their knowledge to a new location was the group that landed in what is now Egypt. -- Frederick Lenz
For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas for new tales about them. -- Erica Brown
I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs. -- Bonnie Tyler
Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change. -- Shannon L. Alder
Logan, don't be an ass.I have been sleeping in mud. I'm covered in dirt and blood and these were my favorite pants before I landed in raccoon shit. -- Alyxandra Harvey
The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle. -- Gail Carriger
On the plane was a Time magazine and there was a 30 page article on diabetes, and I read every page. By the time that plane landed, I had diabetes. -- Lewis Black
Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war anti-Communist paranoia in the United States. -- Charles Duke
The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology. -- Martin Puryear
There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it not been sanctioned by mutual assent. True or false. -- Lawrence Krauser
The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar. -- S.M. Stevens
The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards. -- David Hasselhoff
That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia. -- Henry David Thoreau
So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan's home. -- Bill Ayers
I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I'd just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful. -- Olga Kurylenko
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet. -- Katharine Graham
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man. -- C. S. Lewis
One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man. -- Nelson A. Miles
We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage? -- Ashleigh Banfield
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I shoved him off the snowmobile. He landed on his back in the snow. "Love is a brat, you think? No, love id fine. You are the brat, you spoiled, rotten brat! -- Rachel Vail
I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Tim Tebow may be back in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles. As you remember, he was thrown out of the league when he landed his gyrocopter on the White House lawn. -- David Letterman

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