Supercritical Airfoil Quotes & Sayings

The wilderness is a place of an encounter with the Creator. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Religion regards civil liberty as a noble exercise of man's faculties, the world of politics being a sphere intended by the Creator for the free play of intelligence. Religion, being free and powerful within its own sphere and content with the position reserved for it, realized that its sway is all the better established because it relies only on its own powers and rules men's hearts without external support.
Freedom sees religion as the companion of its struggles and triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its rights. Religion is considered as the guardian of mores, and mores are regarded as the guarantee of the laws and pledge for the maintenance of freedom itself. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door. — Brooke Shields

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic. — Jim Butcher

'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show. — Jesse Ventura

I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it's because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood. — Clarice Lispector

The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life. — Ian McEwan

Because the essence of creativity is fucking around; art is that which is done for the hell of it. — Tim Kreider

My mother was a politician in my formative years. — Antonia Fraser

Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap. — Aldous Huxley

It was the dilemma of the watchers: they didn't want to wait around for nothing at all, some idiot standing on the precipice of the towers, but they didn't want to miss the moment either, if he slipped, or got arrested, or dove, arms stretched. — Colum McCann

Now she felt as if she were dully humming with an unpleasant, low-grade drunkenness. — Meg Wolitzer