"I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it."

-- John Glenn

#Flying Quotes #Taste Quotes #Aviation Quotes

“I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravityâ€”through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!”
“This is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she could be anybody, anywhere, doing anything. I liked that she was our invention, a woman living on the last page of the story with only what we imagined spread out before her. I liked that she was ours, alone.”
“His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.”

Source : Mary Antin (1912). “At School in the Promised Land: Or The Story of a Little Immigrant”
“People here are funny. They work so hard at living, they forget how to live.”
“The first tattoo I got was when I was 17, and it's a cross on my bicep with 'Only God Can Judge Me' underneath.”
“It's no sin to tell a good story.”
“There's no grand excellence to it. In my experience it was just almost the gulaggy boringness of it that'll kill you. You're just in this murk. And you're with other humans, but you lose all your human skills and it's just like you're in this plastic bag and you can't quite connect with people. You lose your ability to transmit electricity or something, and to receive it.”
“If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.”

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