Parachutists Flying Quotes & Sayings

In their dreams they touch, they intertwine, it's more like a collision, and that is the end of flying. They fall to earth, fouled parachutists, botched and cindery angels, love streaming out behind them like torn silk. Enemy groundfire comes up to meet them. — Margaret Atwood

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty. — Ho Chi Minh

When I wrote my first book I was asked to write another. After one hundred, everyone asked me to stop and do something else. After two hundred, I lost all my friends and my girlfriend too. — Robin Sacredfire

In most relationships, one partner has more control than the other. It was just the natural order of things. Perfect balance was a hard thing to find. — Harlan Coben

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. — Barbara Kolb

The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation — Benjamin Franklin

I was sorry to see the News of the World go down, I think it was a great campaigning newspaper. Who can forget the News of the World's high profile campaign against child sex offenders which led to News of the World readers burning down the home of a paediatrician, throwing rocks at a pedalo, stamping on a centipede. — Stewart Lee

I looked into his eyes, and I realized he was the same man I'd seen in my dreams. His face might be totally different, but the same soul was in there, the same intelligence and all the sadness. — Rick Riordan

it was not a place that strangers came upon by chance. — Truman Capote

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended. — Molly Ivins

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance. — William Hazlitt

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death. — Frederick Douglass

I've become increasingly agoraphobic. — Molly Crabapple

He had hours of paperwork ahead of him. All this paper would one day be the downfall of the Empire. — Arthur Slade