Cornelia Fort Quotes
Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots. . . . The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.Cornelia Fort
Quotes to Explore
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
Harold Pinter -
I don't miss acting at all.
Zachery Ty Bryan -
We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
Oliver Tambo -
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
Rainn Wilson -
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung -
All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
Frances McDormand
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
Mandy Patinkin -
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
Eddie Izzard -
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
Damien Chazelle -
I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
Barry Marshall -
In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
Iris Apfel
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I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of the 20th century, who actually did shift government policy in the U.S. and around the world, were John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. I don't see anybody in our system who is at that level of influence.
Adam Davidson -
The only possible solution which will preserve Germany’s honor and Germany’s interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia.
Karl Marx -
She says 'Do I know you?' I say 'Well, no, not biblically,But I've been waiting for you to come and talk to me.I have been playing too many of those boy-girl games.'She says, 'Honey, you are safe here. This is a girl-girl thing.'
Ani DiFranco -
I do not steal victory.
Alexander the Great -
Ἔστι· θεοῦ δ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἰσχὺς καθυπερτέρα·πολλάκι δ᾽ ἐν κακοῖσι τὸν ἀμάχανονκἀκ χαλεπᾶς δύας ὕπερθ᾽ ὀμμάτωνκρημναμενᾶν νεφελᾶν ὀρθοῖ.
Aeschylus -
Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
Benjamin Franklin
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Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.
Jennifer Carpenter -
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken -
The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.
Al Roker -
The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian people are prepared to sacrifice until either the last boy and the last girl raise the Palestinian flag over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat -
The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
Baltasar Garzon -
Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots. . . . The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.
Cornelia Fort