"Planes are my foxhole. I'm always on my knees in them."

-- Patricia Hampl

#Flying Quotes #Knees Quotes #Foxholes Quotes

“I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.”
“Thereâ€™s a long pause. But itâ€™s not a bad pause, because Mik is looking at me like Iâ€™m the treasure from the high shelf that someoneâ€™s just taken down and put into his hands. I find I donâ€™t mind being looked at like this. I donâ€™t mind it at all.”
“What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.”
“For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy'd. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.”

Source : John Armstrong (1770). “The forced marriage, a tragedy. Sketches: or, Essays on various subjects, by Launcelot Temple, Esq”
“It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.”
“My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.”
“I've always been interested in definitions, because in the Bible, the Ten Commandments are there but there's no real clear definition of what sin is, in a fundamental sense - how we can use the words to evaluate our lives as we go along: Am I doing something that is ethically good? Am I being worthwhile in my life at this moment?”

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