"I remain fearless of airplanes after 9/11. But during a trip to Los Angeles on a Boeing 767, I couldn't keep my mind from drifting: What's the largest piece of this airplane that could crash into the World Trade Center, explode out the other side, and survive intact? The landing gear? My computer battery? My belt buckle? My wedding ring?"

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Airplane Quotes #Fearless Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The idea that education can ever be value-neutral is absurd.”
“When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.”

Source : "Jazzin’ Around". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.
“[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.”
“The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.”
“O Love, O great god Love, what have I done, That thou shouldst hunger so after my death? My heart is harmless as my life's first day: Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed.”
“Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption,”
“. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.”
“The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think,”

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