Steve Fossett (James Stephen "Steve" Fossett) Quotes
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.
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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.
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Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.
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I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.
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I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt.
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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.
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It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.
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Not being boring is quite a challenge.
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People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.
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Today we are sacks of shit bundled into flying tubes with a security warning secreted inside every orifice.
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Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
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And God help you if you are a phoenix, and you dare to rise up from the ash.A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy, while you're just flying past.
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To this day my seat on a saddle or on the back of a horse is as secure and tireless as in a rocking chair, and far more pleasurable. Sometimes, in later years, when I found myself suddenly on a strange horse in a trooper's saddle, flying for life or liberty in front of pursuit, I blessed the baby lessons of the wild gallops among the beautiful colts.
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I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.
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Spirituality is a growth industry. And nothing illustrates that better than the burgeoning crop of colossal sanctuaries sprouting up in suburbs across the land.
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It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
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The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.
