Frank Borman Quotes

A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.

Frank Borman

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• I was an avid Pokemon card collector.

  

  Flume
  • Card
  • Collector
  • Avid

• Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • New
  • Anything
  • Technological

• Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Perception

• The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • American
  • House
  • Politics

• And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Family
  • Humor
  • Key

• I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Guy
  • You
  • Way

• Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Real
  • Revolution
  • Sign

• People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.

  

  Dan Barber
  • People
  • True
  • Food

• I grew up really close to Alabama, about 10 minutes from the Alabama line. We'd make trips to Alabama, and I feel at home there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Home
  • Feel

• When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Look
  • Just
  • Pie

• Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Time
  • Long
  • Period

• I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Game
  • Know
  • Always

• Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Day
  • Rest
  • Path

• 'It was sad to see his tall figure receding in the dark as we drove away, just like the other figures in New York and New Orleans: they stand uncertainly underneth inmense skies, and everything about them is drowned. Where go? what do? what for? - sleep.'

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Dark
  • Sleep
  • Sad

• If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, and only when packaged to fit the advertising appropriation of a sponsor, then I don't care what you call it - I say it isn't news.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• The main reason there are no raw devices in Linux is that I personally think that raw devices are a stupid idea.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Stupid

• String theory is extremely attractive because gravity is forced upon us. All known consistent string theories include gravity, so while gravity is impossible in quantum field theory as we have known it, it is obligatory in string theory.

  

  Edward Witten

• When we developed the 'Seinfeld' show, we took a bet on Jerry Seinfeld, who was not a household name. But Jerry had a voice. He was appearing on 'Late Night', on 'The Tonight Show', had some commercials out there, his voice of observational comedy, looking at the world around him, that voice was really starting to come into its own.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • World
  • Night
  • Comedy

• That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Relationship

• I'm not one to pat myself on my back, but I have had a career for 20 years, and if people are interested in how I did it or if I can give any advice, then that's lovely.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • People
  • Career
  • Advice

• A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.

  

  Frank Borman