I went to see Billy Connolly do two hours with no break at the Apollo, with Parkinson's disease, during the winter, and it was one of the most important gigs I have seen in my life.
Backstage at the Apollo isn't a fun place to be. It's a bit like a prison: small rooms filled with warm Diet Coke.
A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
Putting a man on the moon united our nation in victory and we've collectively mourned through tragedies such as Apollo 1, the Challenger and Columbia.
The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.
The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.
Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.
I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.
If it's Saturday night, and you're sitting on your couch watching 'Showtime at the Apollo,' then you're not a man's man.
When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
It's true that Apollo 10's lander was overweight. Late in the craft's development, it became clear that its ballooning weight was endangering the whole mission.
I'm a major NASA nerd, so I've spent a lot of time learning about the space race and the Apollo missions.
My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.
Apollo?” I guessed… He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.” A god named Fred?
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone.
My biggest emotion on Apollo 13 after the oxygen tank explosion was disappointment that we had lost the landing.
I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!
Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold;
Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold,
Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway,
Can bribe the poor possession of the day.
The basic story for Golden Spike is that we discovered a way to create do-it-yourself Apollo programs for other countries.
During one of the Apollo missions, I saw Walter Cronkite showing off the flight plan. It just mesmerized me. All this detail! That's what I wanted.
There's a lot of unreleased blues stuff I did with the Apollo Theater musicians, and there was of experimenting going on for me in the mid-'60s in that studio, which I think frustrated Columbia.
I did 'Showtime at the Apollo' when I was 10, and it was the first time that I'd ever performed on TV, and it felt great.
I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.
Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad.
Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
So many people I talk to who work in technology, you ask them, 'What got you interested in science?' and those from my generation say, 'The Apollo landings.'
If you talk about natural ability, I think Apollo's probably the most naturally gifted athlete of the new era.
I'm like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket and flew to the moon. What was his name? Apollo Creed?
Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.
Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.
After six successful Apollo flights, including two lunar landings, people were getting bored.
When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.
My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses
Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.
Speaking of photography, while the Apollo 8 crew shot hundreds of photos, there was one that got everybody's attention: a blue-and-white Earth rising over a gray moonscape.
I think the Apollo has always been the people's performing arts center and reflected the community, whether it is Stevie Wonder or Tito Puente.
Apollo was a big, unwieldy vehicle. I had a problem with the flight controllers over that. It would try to fare its way like an airplane.
For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.
At first, Hendrix went and became a superstar in London, but if he walked past the Apollo in Harlem, no one would know who he was. I'm the hip-hop version of him.
I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.
There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.
My mom and pop took me to the Apollo Theater on my thirteenth birthday to see Heavy D and Keith Sweat. It was late at night, up on 125th Street, and it was crazy!
With 'Apollo 13,' I wasn't sure the genre would work, because space films hadn't done that well.
Watching Billy Connolly at the Hammersmith Apollo in the late 90s was a masterclass of long-form comedy.
The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.
I was working as a flight director on the Gemini IX mission, and it seemed almost overnight I was picking up the responsibilities for the Apollo Program.
I spent most of my youth in Manchester, in clubs and football grounds and the Manchester Apollo.
Well," said Apollo with a brave smile. "You were right, my dear. You had everything under control! Let's go see if we boiled anyone important, shall we?
The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression.
I watched 'Apollo 13,' and it, like, absolutely freaked me out. I was terrified. I didn't want to go to space because I thought it was imminent death.
My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.
To sell out London's Hammersmith Apollo is amazing. Selling it out for two nights? Even better.
I will say as much as we butted heads, Apollo Crews, I think, is an incredible talent.
[The 1975 Chase Econometrics] showed that for every one dollar spent on Apollo, 14 came back into the U.S. economy.
Red cattle," Annabeth said. "The cattle of the sun." "What?" I [Percy] asked. "They're sacred to Apollo." "Holy cows?
When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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