Squawks Aviation Quotes & Sayings

Nine days after Perreault first saw the woman in black, an Indonesian mother of four came out of her tent long enough to claim that the mermaid had risen, fully-formed, from the very center of the quake.
One of her boys, hearing this, said that he'd heard it was the other way around. — Peter Watts

It's on the path of simplicity that love prefers to walk. — Sean Patrick Brennan

Wandering is better than place sometimes, than home, than destination. Sometimes she can eke out the idea that wandering is possibility, chance, serendipity
he might be there, that place she didn't think to look, hadn't worked hard enough to find ... — Michelle Latiolais

I'm not scared to fail, I'm not scared to lose, I'm not scared to die, for that matter ... It's going to work out the way it's supposed to work out. — Randy Couture

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly. — Henning Mankell

So if animals aren't our friends, then what are they? The answer can be summed up between two buns. — Stephen Colbert

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly. — Ama Ata Aidoo

But about the smell of rancid butter ... There are good associations too. When I think of this rancid butter I see myself standing in a little, old world courtyard, a very smelly, very dreary courtyard. Through the cracks in the shutters strange figures peer out at me. — Henry Miller

As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans. — Bobby Sherman

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship. — Ron Wyden

If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in skinning a cat, then the religious philosopher can only draw one of two deductions. He must either deny the existence of God, as all atheists do; or he must deny the present union between God and man, as all Christians do. The new theologians seem to think it a highly rationalistic solution to deny the cat. — G.K. Chesterton

The word 'operatic' is often misused to mean over the top, where someone is over-emoting. And that does a terrible disservice because 'operatic' to me means a commitment and a belief to the emotion of the moment that is sincere. — James Gray

He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands. — Annie Proulx

Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right. — Joseph Bernardin