Mathias Rust Quotes

My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.

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• You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Future
  • Know
  • Wife

• At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Up
  • World
  • Thoughts

• The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Me

• I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Book
  • Want
  • Thoughts

• Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Stars

• I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Feeling
  • Film
  • Explore

• You were born as the one you are.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • You
  • Born
  • Were

• My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Beautiful
  • Parents
  • Myself

• I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Brother

• When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Always

• I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Loving

• I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Truth
  • Right
  • Wrong

• In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Different
  • Children
  • Diversity

• A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Man
  • Support
  • Pride

• I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Find

• Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Science
  • Poverty
  • Prosperity

• Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Happiness
  • Union

• I'm not trying to be the highest-paid receiver in the National Football League. I've never received that, and that's not ever going to happen. So I'm fine with what I have, I make good money, and I'm happy about it.

  

  Donald Driver
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Money

• And heaven had wanted one immortal song.But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

  

  John Dryden
  • Song
  • Heaven
  • Ambition

• The ability to row in any conditions, raging crosswind, two-foot tall jet ski wakes, torrential downpour, is absolutely essential in order to be a champion sculler. It all comes under the heading of boatmanship. Some races are won on nothing more than superior boatmanship.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Champion
  • Conditions
  • Races

• I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.

  

  Joanna Southcott
  • Hand

• My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.

  

  Mathias Rust
  • People
  • Red