Franz Reichelt Quotes & Sayings

In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,
that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations. — Edmund Burke

I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me. — Andie MacDowell

We, each of us, have a ticket to ride, and if the trip be interesting (if it's dull, we have only ourselves to blame), then we relish the landscape (how quickly it whizzes by!), interact with our fellow travelers, pay frequent visits to the washrooms and concession stands, and hardly ever hold up the ticket to the light where we can read its plainly stated destination: The Abyss. — Tom Robbins

There's more that we need to be liberated from: maybe a system that prizes competition and ruthlessness and short-term thinking and rugged individualism, a system that serves environmental destruction and limitless consumption so well - that arrangement you can call capitalism. It embodies the worst of machismo while it destroys what's best on Earth. More men fit into it better, but it doesn't really serve any of us. — Rebecca Solnit

Having played the Old Course many times since my first visit in 1981, I am now of the opinion it is one of the best and most beautiful tests of links golf anywhere in the world. — Tom Watson

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night. — Charles Stross

I have always been ahead of my time. — Nikola Tesla

In 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute suit he designed himself. He jumped to test his invention
he expected to fly
but instead he fell straight down, hitting the ground like a meteor and leaving a 5.9-inch-deep crater from the impact. Did he mean to kill himself? Doubtful. I think he was just cocky, and also stupid. — Jennifer Niven

I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto. — Scott Speedman

I find Christmas very difficult — Steven Morrissey

I would wish it on no one to be me.
Only I am capable of being myself.
To know so much, to have seen so much, and
To say nothing, just about nothing. — Robert Walser

Tom's Cabin, and she spent many hours acting out — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I had to work 10 times harder. People expect so much of you, because they want to see if you can strive and stand on your own. — Kelly Rowland

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals. — Paul Weyrich