Airplane 1980 Quotes & Sayings

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person — David Hume

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. — Mignon McLaughlin

When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry) — Keith Richards

Happiness and success are not something that we can attain
or possibly loose, but rather inside qualities that we have forgotten about
during the very process of reaching them. — G. Gyarmati

And I walked, I walked through the light air; I moved with the morning. — Theodore Roethke

The absence of any kind of communication from her was not at all like an absence. It was instead a presence: of mind-pain, like a thick, rusted arrow shooting straight into my head, poisoning my mind with something like tetanus, causing my thoughts to go haywire, a spasm here, a spasm there. — Chinelo Okparanta

Conflict occurs
when two pasts step
on the toes of the present. — Lera Auerbach

Eavesdropping's sort of thrilling 'cause you learn what people really think, but eavesdropping makes you miserable for exactly the same reason. — David Mitchell

No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself. — Elinor Florence

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space. — Isaac Newton