Logbooks Quotes & Sayings

Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain. — Andrew Weil

That beast inside you, the one you think is tethered tightly to the post, the one you've tamed with art, love, prayer, meditation: it's barely muzzled. The knot is weak. The post is brittle. All it takes is two words and a siren to cut it loose. — Adrian J. Walker

Wylan didn't think he imagined the tension in the rasp of Kaz's voice. Kaz never yelled the way Wylan's father did, but Wylan had learned to listen for that low note, that bit of black harmony that crept into Kaz's tone when things were about to get dangerous. — Leigh Bardugo

There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped. — Rebecca West

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination. — Gary Hamel

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living. — Auguste Comte

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan. — Benazir Bhutto

To brighten your vision, look at the positive side of life with great love. — Debasish Mridha

You are supposed to know how to fly or you would not be here. You will now learn to fly all over again. Our way. I have examined your logbooks. They contain some interesting and clever lies. If you are lucky and work a good solid eighteen hours a day in this school, it is barely possible that a few of you may succeed in actually going out on the line-that is, if the company is still in such desperate need of pilots that it will hire anybody who wears his wings in his lapel and walks slowly past the front door. — Ernest K. Gann

Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey speck of a man compared with the ruthless magnificent fellow he had dreamed of being ... — Edith Wharton

There are two prerequisites to growing wings: the first is to feel encircled and the second is to believe that you can break the circle. — Fatema Mernissi

I loved playing with the mix of fantastical inventions and real ones. I hope kids will start logbooks to record their own creations. — Marissa Moss

I think Kristin Bauer is a goddess. — Rutina Wesley

Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of a person and have trouble seeing the real thing. — Paul Dano