789 Aircraft Quotes & Sayings

Near the Mexican border, rocky canyons cleave the mountains, laying them aside like broken wedges of gray cheese furred with a dark mold of pinon and juniper that sheds hard shadows on moon glazed stone, etched lithographs in gray and black, taupe and silver. Beneath feathery chamisa a rattlesnake flicks his tongue, following a scent. Along a precarious rock ledge a ring-tailed cat strolls, nose snuffling the cracks. At the base of the stone a peccary trots along familiar foot trails, toward the toes of a higher cliff where a seeping spring gathers in a rocky goblet. In the desert, sounds are dry and rattling: pebbles toed into cracks, hoofs tac-tacking on stone, the serpent rattle warning the wild pig to veer away, which she does with a grunt to the tribe behind her. From the rocky scarp the ring-tailed cat hears the whole population of the desert pass about its business in the canyon below. — Sheri S. Tepper

The question to ask is: do we view Scripture as stories to imaginatively live into or do we view Scripture as prescriptions for how to live? — Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter

o not preoccupy yourself with wants or expectations. The world won't abide by the standards, you set in any case, whether you set them too low or too high. It will break them every time for the simple fact that our true essence has no desire, hope or expectation for anything. It has no selfish inclinations of any kind. Everything, it experiences, is a passing phase, not its real identity. — Anita B. Sulser PhD

I have stood up and I have represented my constituents to the best of my abilities, and I'm very proud of that. — Hillary Clinton

daughter's death had loosed something in Sara, a savage kind of grief that burned onto the canvas. — Dominic Smith

I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets: — Sara Gruen

I had read four thousand pages of letters by Lawrence and I wanted thousands of pages more... I wanted them not to end. And yet, at the same time that I was wishing they would not come to an end, I was hurrying through these books because however much you are enjoying a book, however much you want it never to end, you are always eager for it to end. However much you are enjoying a book you are always flicking to the end, counting to see how many pages are left, looking forward to the time when you can put the book down and have done with it. At the back of our minds, however much we are enjoying a book, we come to the end of it and some little voice is always saying, "Thank Christ for that! — Geoff Dyer

We didn't say anything as we ducked though the bushes and when we stood next to the car I could tell he was searching, maybe for the right thing to say. But there wasn't any right thing. — Jessi Kirby

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. — Danny Boyle

Some of us die long before our last breath. We perish in the fire of love, reduced to ashes in the consuming blaze. No, we do not die when our hearts cease to beat, but when they start beating the first time
for somebody else. — Shakieb Orgunwall

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error. — David Mitchell

The Fate had moved, or had been moved, thirty light years in less than a picosecond. — Iain M. Banks

The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun. — P. J. O'Rourke

Well, normally we don't think all that hard about titles. — Robert Forster