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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• 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
  • Conditions

• 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

• Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.

  

  Epictetus
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Opinions

• All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Father
  • Giving

• When you are made to choose between two good things... Don't just think of what you'll get when you pick one. But think of what you'll lose when you don't choose the other.

  

  Noemie Lenoir
  • Choose
  • Lose
  • Pick

• Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Dead
  • Killed

• For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.

  

  Arleigh Burke
  • World
  • Power
  • War

• The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Killed
  • Conquered
  • Turks

• 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