"The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air."

-- Ernest K. Gann

#Airplane Quotes #Sweat Quotes #Oil Quotes

“You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.”
“We all â€” in the end â€” die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.”
“I believe that alternative healing methods are much more than just temporary or half measures.”

Source : "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.
“When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and I play the symphony for them. Then I sit and I look at them. I always pick a piece of music that has up and downs, very dramatic parts, very quiet parts and really sensitive parts so that it can produce different emotions.”
“I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.”
“I had learnt to seek intensity â€” more of life, a concentrated sense of life.”
“I chose to enter a profession that is not easy. To be able to say that I am doing what I love for a living - man, it isn't work. I cannot begin to describe how fortunate I am.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The key to success in life is getting up early.”

Source : Jenni Rivera (2013). “Unbreakable: My Story, My Way”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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