Michael O'Leary Quotes

Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.

Michael O'Leary

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• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Wrong
  • Stand
  • Him

• Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Good
  • Philosophy

• It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Deep

• Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Me
  • Jesus
  • Spirit

• I don't care about how much other actors get.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Care
  • Other
  • How

• To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mind

• Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • You
  • Always
  • Once

• Everything I do now is a first.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • First
  • Everything
  • Now

• Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Act
  • Libertarian
  • Patriot

• I like very much to put on fashion shows.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Shows

• Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Love
  • Oil

• There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef eating. It divides Hindus into those who eat cow's flesh and those who do not.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Eating
  • Eat
  • Cow

• I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Time
  • Blonde
  • Every Time

• Where the presence of truth should be possible, it can be possible solely under the condition of the recognition of myth—that is, the recognition of its crushing indifference to truth.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Truth

• 'Alyx,' she said, 'you're going to be a legend.''I already am, Captain,' she said.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • She
  • Legend

• When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot, he said. The doctors used to say, 'Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound - this is what I had to go through.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Men
  • Women

• After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Happy
  • Taken

• Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many jihadists have escaped.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • High
  • Death

• We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.

  

  Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Love
  • Eating
  • Creatures

• Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Sometimes
  • Story
  • News

• I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

  

  Kris Carr
  • Cancer

• Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.

  

  Michael O'Leary
  • Fly
  • Computer
  • Pilot