Burt Rutan Quotes

The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.

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• I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Dream
  • Flying
  • Mars

• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • World
  • Money
  • Fun

• I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Feeling
  • Beauty
  • Bird

• 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

• Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Place
  • Criticism

• Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Criticism
  • Made
  • Prejudice

• Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Criticism
  • Target

• There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • People
  • Up
  • Special

• Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Remember
  • Risk
  • Flying

• As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Mind
  • Enjoy
  • Criticism

• Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Religious
  • Doing
  • Criticism

• All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Opinion
  • Flying
  • Laugh

• I was doing shows and flying economy, and nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I'd get in, there wasn't any room service. I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose. You'd be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • Long
  • Bad

• I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Up
  • Good
  • Hate

• There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Great
  • Flying
  • Direction

• I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • Lies
  • Criticism

• Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Freedom
  • Best
  • Criticism

• In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Help
  • Nature
  • Light

• As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• There's two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once you've read, you never look at the world the same way again.

  

  David Gerrold
  • World
  • Science
  • Star

• I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies.

  

  Dennis Muren
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• I do think that people go to Las Vegas for 'whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.' They go for the spectacle.

  

  Charles Bock
  • People
  • Vegas

• The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.

  

  Burt Rutan
  • Criticism
  • Flying