Jet Test Pilots Quotes & Sayings

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up. — Tony Dungy

Her constant orders for beheading are shocking to those modern critics of children's literature who feel that juvenile fiction should be free of all violence and especially violence with Freudian undertones. Even the Oz books of L. Frank Baum, so singularly free of the horrors to be found in Grimm and Andersen, contain many scenes of decapitation. As far as I know, there have been no empirical studies of how children react to such scenes and what harm if any is done to their psyche. My guess is that the normal child finds it all very amusing and is not damaged in the least, but that books like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis. — Martin Gardner

Obama's election to the presidency in 2008 was treated more like a
coronation, if not an intense religious ritual, by the establishment press and
a fawning, glassy-eyed majority of Americans. Anyone who questioned
anything at all about Obama was deemed to be a "hater" or, even worse,
a racist. — Donald Jeffries

Life is the longest death in California, — Rufus Wainwright

Short of a death in the family, a divorce is perhaps the most life-altering experience in human relationships. — Kenneth Eade

I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake. — Emeril Lagasse

I always feel that there are two powers in the universe. There is good and there is evil and it depends what side you listen to and which path you decide to follow. — William Tucci

I have one of those faces that nobody likes. — David Alpay

I wanted Isabel, but she was such an impossible thing to want. — Maggie Stiefvater

Contrarian thinking at its best simply asks, Is this really true? It speaks up when the politically correct answer or the conventional wisdom doesn't match reality - when things simply don't work the way everyone says they should. — Larry Osborne

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.