"After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake.""

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Source : "50 years later, Yeager proves he still has 'the right stuff'" by Charles Feldman, www.cnn.com. October 14, 1997.

Chuck Yeager

#Mistake Quotes #Airplane Quotes #Men Quotes

“Each of us is born with a built-in GPS, God's Positioning System, a sophisticated navigational package that divinely aligns us with people and events and keeps us from losing our way.”
“I'm still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I've got older I've chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere!”
“If they want to play football, we can play football.”
“It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.”
“I love thoroughness. I respect people that do a job well.”
“Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.”
“I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.”
“When he said to give him the sword, I donâ€™t think he meant for you to stick it in his guts.”

Source : Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.103, Del Rey

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