Charles Rolls Quotes

I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.

Charles Rolls

• Made
• Reader
• Flight
• Predictions

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • War
  • Organization

• When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • World
  • Rest
  • New York

• I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • World
  • True
  • Dream

• To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Me
  • Voice
  • Stronger

• We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • motivation
  • Act
  • Talk

• When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Trust
  • Nobody

• In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Used
  • Impression
  • Brown

• Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Fragrance

• There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Art
  • Matter

• We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Honesty

• It is well past time for President Abbas to stand up and condemn all acts of violence, rather than encouraging violence by glorifying terrorists and teaching children to view Israelis as animals.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Always

• It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Justice
  • Struggle
  • Civil Rights

• Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Existence

• During the year we'll start thinking about the dream lines, ... We seemed to have come up with some good lines here although after two games in 2002 we switched them all around.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Ability
  • Fraud
  • Exceeds

• The time to make up your mind about people is never.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.

  

  Albert Warren "Tillie" Tillinghast
  • Nature
  • Golf
  • Doe

• Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Choices

• I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Music
  • Band
  • Beginning

• I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Made

• I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Soul
  • Made
  • Declaration

• Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

  

  Rumi
  • Work
  • Made
  • Everyone

• I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.

  

  Charles Rolls
  • Made
  • Reader
  • Flight