Ernest K. Gann Quotes

Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.

Ernest K. Gann

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• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Know
  • Learn

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Ordinary
  • Insult

• I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Live
  • Surrounded
  • Rural

• I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Science
  • Community
  • Always

• You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Great
  • Job
  • Law

• I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Red
  • Celebrity

• We talk about issues, but I'm not his adviser, I'm his wife... I find that it's really best not to give your spouse a lot of advice. I don't want a lot of advice from him.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Wife
  • Advice

• Disneyworld…is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Future
  • Vision
  • Magic

• Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

  

  Aesop
  • Shadow

• Browsing the OED is the idea of a perfect day for me.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Perfect

• Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Trust

• You definitely see a difference in some guys' games when they do get paid. I'm trying to make sure I'm not that player.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Trying
  • Player

• It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.

  

  Andrew-Lee Potts
  • Funny

• Young men in my day really stepped up... These were champions for freedom, equality, and justice for all human beings, and they were educated individuals that used their education and knowledge to represent their case.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Up
  • Men
  • Freedom

• I think in general, people are baffled by love and what it does to them and how far they'll go to have love and be loved.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • People

• I walk unseenOn the dry smooth-shaven green,To behold the wandering moon,Riding near her highest noon,Like one that had been led astrayThrough the heav'n's wide pathless way,And oft, as if her head she bowed,Stooping through a fleecy cloud.

  

  John Milton
  • She
  • Moon
  • Green

• The new government will have three major improvements. It is time to improve the economy in Taiwan.

  

  Chen Shui-bian
  • Time

• I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.

  

  John Updike
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Hope

• You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Energy

• While in Paris, I got into modeling - photographers would literally stop me on the street.

  

  Khoudia Diop
  • Stop
  • Paris

• I've learned... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Heart
  • Hand
  • Sometimes

• Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.

  

  Ernest K. Gann
  • Death
  • Victims
  • Pilots