Ernest K. Gann Quotes

During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge near Elko, Nevada. In both incidents the official verdict was 'pilot error,' but since their passengers, who were innocent of the controls, also failed to survive, it seemed that fate was the hunter. As it had been and would be.

Ernest K. Gann

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• We must strive to become good ancestors.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Good
  • Strive
  • Ancestors

• Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Intelligent
  • Very
  • Pigs

• One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Good
  • Reason

• If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Future
  • Couple
  • Loss

• I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • World
  • Music
  • Love

• I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Business
  • Help
  • Write

• I am the worlds laziest writer.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Writer
  • Laziest

• I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Opportunity
  • Dance
  • Floor

• If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • People
  • Spring
  • Greek

• I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

  

  Dorothea Lange
  • Believe
  • Beautiful

• Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Knowledge
  • Ends
  • Skills

• So it [3D] is something I'm still learning, it's fresh, so if the budget allows I'll do it again and just see how far it goes because it's the frontier, it's more interesting. It's still expensive, the projection system can be annoying sometimes, it's not really regulated or perfected yet, so it's still expensive. If I do a lower budget I'll just do 2D, but if the budget allows I think I'll try 3D.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Interesting

• Language is the tool of the tools.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Language
  • Tool

• When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!

  

  August Strindberg
  • Revolution
  • Legal
  • Succeeds

• American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

  

  Vincente Minnelli
  • World
  • Important
  • Song

• Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

  

  William Moulton Marston
  • Long
  • Girl
  • Force

• Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • You
  • Communication
  • Robots

• I mean God knows I've done tons of schlock during the course of my career and stuff that's been very low budget and really pressed for time, but I've never had an experience like this. I kept saying to people, "How do you do this?" I said to Susan [Lucci], "How do you do it?" I don't recall exactly what she answered me but it was something like "Close my eyes and think of England. You just do it."

  

  Richard Masur
  • People
  • Thinking
  • England

• It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.

  

  Mick Ralphs
  • Funny
  • Company
  • Stuff

• During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge near Elko, Nevada. In both incidents the official verdict was 'pilot error,' but since their passengers, who were innocent of the controls, also failed to survive, it seemed that fate was the hunter. As it had been and would be.

  

  Ernest K. Gann
  • Survive
  • Instrument
  • Killed