Planeload Quotes & Sayings

The world's many mysteries fascinate me and inspire in me a hope so profound that I suppose, if I were to express it sincerely and at length in a manuscript more bluntly philosophical than this one, any normal person, those who walk freely in daylight, would find it the work of a Pollyanna and worthy only of ridicule. — Dean Koontz

Well, suppose we use our brains. We see things solid. Solidities are important to us in nature. In solidities, there are measures that greatly affect us. There are rhythms in the ins and outs of form. Music, the forest and to many the most impressive of arts deals in measures which seem to go in every direction. They combine, they move together, they deflect and they oppose. Music is a structure of highly mathematical measures. According to the selection and relative value of these measures the music is great or small in its effect on us. — Robert Henri

They knew a good building would praise God better than a bad one, even if the bad one were covered all over with official symbols of praise. — Thomas Merton

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke. — Brendan Behan

If you feel that everything's too damn okay,
then it is just a sign that something is wrong. — Toba Beta

Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through. — Damon Galgut

Nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy. — Maggie Gyllenhaal

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent — Martin Luther King Jr.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do. — Quentin Tarantino

A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex. — Garrison Keillor

Change the way you use your time, and you change your life. — Bear Grylls