Torpedo Planes Quotes & Sayings

This isn't my last brush with catastrophe while making Destination Truth. Rather, it's merely the opening act in a cabaret of close calls, all in the name of exploration. I'm not saying that making D.T. is dangerous; it's not, per se. It's just that when you go out of your way to find adventure, sometimes adventure bites you on the ass. The key is figuring out how to walk away in one piece. — Josh Gates

I always wanted to be the pretty girl, but I thought I wasn't. When I started acting and getting pretty girl roles, I felt like I was just pretending, and nobody saw I was just this big nerd. — Heather Graham

How you accept, evaluate and appreciate you, is what will decide the size of your achievement — Keerthi Singhe

In 1793 such a force as no one had any conception of made its appearance. War had again suddenly become an affair of the people, and that of a people numbering thirty millions, every one of whom regarded himself as a citizen of the State ... By this participation of the people in the war ... a whole Nation with its natural weight came into the scale. — Carl Von Clausewitz

I knew little about short story writing then so it was rough going, but I did find the experience very memorable. — Haruki Murakami

We are a generation that is obsessed with nostalgia. Everything from the past is so readily available in ways that it never was before and because of that, western civilization will experience a period of arrested growth. The future holds fifty-year-old men and women running Disney Princess blogs. Bank on it. — Jayme K.

You tighten your belt when you eat less. Your belt around your belly can get smaller when you buy less food. When you eat less... you spend less money. Tighten your belt = Spend less money. — Elliot Carruthers

I could go on like this forever, but would I ever find a place that was meant for me? Like, for example, where? After lengthy considerations, the only place I could think of was the cockpit of a two-seater Kamikaze torpedo-plane. Of all the dumb ideas. In the first place, all the torpedo-planes were scrapped thirty years ago — Haruki Murakami

If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy. — Dennis Prager

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth. — Dorothy Day

Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without intellectual objectivity they should show me the way to their airport. It is important to have an opinion and not be afraid to express it, knowing there will be criticism. — Jose Mourinho

She was a surprise, and let's face it, few people are. — Donna Lynn Hope

There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord. — Peter Shaffer