"To be a great pilot you have to make a pact with the devil, but don't let him swallow you up."

-- Ernst Udet

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“I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.”

Source : Michael Lindsay-Hogg (2011). “Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond”, p.251, Knopf
“And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.”
“In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.”
“By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values.”
“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
“Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.”

Source : Edwin Powell Hubble (1936). “The Realm of the Nebulæ”

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