"The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament."

-- Ross Macpherson Smith

#Men Quotes #Air Quotes #Pilots Quotes

“Indeed, as soon as he took office, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority was to deny President [Barack] Obama a second term.”
“Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.”
“I don't let negative attitudes and meanness from other people keep me from living my life.”
“I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie,”

Source : "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion harness transformation. Food and air arenâ€™t just shuffled about but, rather, undergo the exact chemical bonding needed to keep you alive. The sugar extracted from an orange travels to the brain and fuels a thought. The emergent property in this case is the newness of the thought; no molecules in the history of the universe ever combined to produce that exact thought.”
“Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.”
“Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.”
“I truly believe that a beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination. Women of integrity, depth, sensuality and strength have always been my source of inspiration, the reason for what I do and how I got to where I am today. They are all my muse. If my quest, in what I do - to make women look and feel beautiful - reflects even a tiny fraction of my deep-rooted respect for them, and succeeds in celebrating these lives of strength and substance, then I will consider it a job well done.”

Source : "On Women, Power and Fashion" by Prabal Gurung, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2013.

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