Cleared For Takeoff Quotes & Sayings

Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about. — Xavier Becerra

You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ... ? I wonder what I was blushing about? — Gracie Allen

There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks. — Pete Hamill

At last

don't be anything for me
be something which is
Clear as ocean water
Be cloud , but don't rain on me
Be sun, but don't shine for me
Be moon, but don't enlighten me
But be lucid, in what
You are to me
So that I can think, where do you exist — Arshad Ahmad

I'm not a big advocate of living together before marriage. It can be the right thing, but it can also leave two people stuck together who haven't figured out what they really want out of the relationship. — Emily Yoffe

If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my father was not immune to Mom's scheduling, though he was given more leeway than the rest of us. — Will Schwalbe

Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went. — Laura Hillenbrand

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. — Anthony Trollope

All organisation is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition just as two objects cannot occupy the same space — Arthur Miller

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they are the majority ... We have here a problem that is not easy of solution, but yet must engage the attention of all who wish to devote themselves to education. — Henri Poincare

As a man believes, so he will act. — Sam Harris

Every person has a right to the small things, you see? The little happinesses. After all, those are the ones that make life most worth living. It's what we're fighting for. — Kim Harrison

There is only one story. — Thomas C. Foster

I am, like everybody else, hurt when the thing I've done is misunderstood or attacked but I've gotten old enough to realize that if you do something, not everybody's got to like it. And if everybody likes it, it's probably not that interesting. — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

You think that you're a bad thing, but you're not. You protect the rest of us from bad things. You're badass and lethal and scary, and you're as far from weak as you can get. You're a protector, Gabe. My protector. — Courtney Cole

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be. — Jerry Saltz