Dean Karnazes Quotes

Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

Dean Karnazes

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• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Hand

• Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Air

• A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Air
  • End
  • Rose

• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Together
  • House

• I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Air

• The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Process
  • Adventure
  • Miracle

• Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Dad
  • Hand
  • Air

• Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Small
  • Change

• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Death

• I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Great
  • Sure
  • Achievements

• Without electricity, the air would rot.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Air
  • Without
  • Electricity

• We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Hand
  • Adventure
  • Go

• 'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Lost
  • Air

• 'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Great
  • Character
  • Girl

• Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Change
  • Air
  • Politics

• If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.

  

  Eduard Buchner
  • Air
  • Name
  • Stand

• She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Time
  • She
  • Air

• In 1999, NATO did impose a no-fly zone in Kosovo without seeking a U.N. resolution to carry out air strikes on Serbian forces.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Air
  • Fly

• The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.

  

  Archibald Hill
  • World
  • Live
  • Mind

• The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;-on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Night
  • Light
  • Air

• I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Kind
  • Everyone
  • Opinions

• I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

  

  James Herbert

• Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

  

  Dean Karnazes
  • Air
  • Adventure
  • Endurance