Chesley Sullenberger Quotes
I went from living my life anonymously for 58 years to being a public figure known globally in a matter of minutes.
Quotes to Explore
-
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
-
You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
-
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
-
I am a citizen of the world.
-
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
-
I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
-
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
-
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
-
I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
-
It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
-
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
-
I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
-
Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
-
I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
-
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
-
I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
-
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
-
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
-
I confess that as a young boy, Sunday was not my favorite day. Grandfather shut down the action. We didn't have any transportation. We couldn't drive the car. He wouldn't even let us start the motor. We couldn't ride the horses, or the steers, or the sheep.
-
The Eskimo, like any pre-literate, leaps easily from the Paleolithic stone age to the electric age, by-passing the Neolithic specialism.
-
Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.
-
I did a book signing Saturday, actually, in Augusta and people were just coming up to me in tears saying, 'Thank you, for what you've done. You've helped me change my life'.
-
In 1967, I found out I was losing my hearing. I went 10 years without any help. I had otosclerosis - hardening of the bone in the middle of the ear.
-
I went from living my life anonymously for 58 years to being a public figure known globally in a matter of minutes.
