"The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested."

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Christopher Cockerell

#Army Quotes #Air Quotes #Royal Quotes

“I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.”
“Italian politicians are too stupid to deserve my vote, but they can get over it with my critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic and vituperative invectives.”
“Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.”
“To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.”
“Three years between records is longer than average. Double albums are much more of a statement. I really wanted to put myself out there as much as I possibly could.”
“If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.”
“I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.”
“Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.”

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