Helicopter Rides Quotes & Sayings

Chances are given and taken, used and misused, but a chance never given is a chance never taken and a life never lived. — Joshua Smith

The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire. — Cesare Pavese

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own. — Ned Rorem

The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them; you can't do any film work on the side. — Tom Wlaschiha

I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies. — Wanda Sykes

I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be. — Chris Van Allsburg

Fiction writing is very seldom a matter of saying things; it is a matter of showing things. However, — Flannery O'Connor

What does despair mean to someone who interprets that emotion as a chemical reaction in the brain? — Mitchell Heisman

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein

Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced ... can you realize how much the modern world owes to the Hebrew prophets, whose monotheism and moral teachings entered into Christianity and Islam ... — Carlton J. H. Hayes

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility. — Leigh Hunt

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one's own heart. — Yukio Mishima

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection. — Elizabeth Drew

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book. — Peter Drucker

I remember my dad supporting everyone on the local and national level. I was pretty much born into it. I saw the importance of politics firsthand. It gave you a chance to be at the table. — Nicole Avant