"Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is - it goes on wings."

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Source : Wolfgang Langewiesche (1994). “Stick & Rudder: 50th Anniversary Edition”, McGraw-Hill

Wolfgang Langewiesche

#Airplane Quotes #Wings Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.”

Source : "Leos Carax, Motorized" by Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 17, 2012.
“I am very annoyed about this issue. Why canâ€™t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems weâ€™re just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I donâ€™t think that they should define the terms of the debate. I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didnâ€™t realize I was gay, which I find really offensive. I find it offensive to me, but I also find it offensive to all the men Iâ€™ve been out with.”
“He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.”
“As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.”

Source : Justin Cronin (2012). “The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy): A Novel (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.352, Ballantine Books
“I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.”
“If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.”
“Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters”
“Never join an organization.”

Source : Georges Braque (1971). “Illustrated notebooks, 1917-1955”, Dover Pubns

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