"I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although that end is what we have all ostensibly been striving to attain."

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Source : Amy Johnson (1939). “Sky Roads of the World”

Amy Johnson

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Flying Quotes

“I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the world can be, and I think that's because I have gone through periods of looking at the world through a really melancholy lenses. It's all just flip sides of the same coin.”
“Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore”

Source : Corriere della Sera Magazine, March 09, 2006.
“I feel connected to every other creative element because I have a creative soul. My isolation is not through the work it's through not being able to connect with mediocrity. When I was younger I was a punk and then when I got married and had children I became a mother. They are the only two memberships to any clan-like cultures that I have ever embraced.”
“Congress is the Justin Bieber of our government”
“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
“Various species of animals react differently to the same drug. Not only do the variations in the metabolism of a drug make it difficult to extrapolate results of animal experiments to man but they create a serious obstacle to the development of new therapeutic drugs.”
“So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.”
“Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.”

Source : "Monica's Manifesto". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. July 13, 2012.

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