The Right Stuff Quotes

“The congressmen in the room just wanted to see them, to use their position to arrange a personal audience, to gaze upon them with their own eyes across the committee table, no more than four feet away, to shake hands with them, occupy the same space on this earth with them for and hour or so, fawn over them, pay homage to them, bathe in their magical aura, feel the radiation of their righteous stuff, salute them, wish upon them the smile of God...”
― Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff

“Lances and plumes! I’m a knight! Come up and fight! Why hold back! Knights of the Right Stuff!”
― Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff