Landing Quotes - Page 9

• Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.

  David Shore

  Safety, Noise, Runway

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• The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes

  War, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Pestilence

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• I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Successful, World, France

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day.

  Richard Branson

  Teenager, Moon, Space

  "CEO Interview: Richard Branson on space travel". Interview with Susan Montoya Bryan, newsok.com. November 23, 2010.

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• I was literally living on the edge of life, to the point where I didn't know what was going to happen, not caring, taking chances and finally landing in prison and once there, all my lines were cut.

  Christian Hosoi

  Caring, Cutting, Lines

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.

  Etgar Keret

  Fall, Character, Destiny

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• The city?" Tyrion was lost. "What city would that be?" "King's Landing. I am sending you to court." It was the last thing Tyrion Lannister would ever have anticipated. He reached for his wine, considered for a moment as he sipped. "And what am I to do there?" "Rule," his father said curtly.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Father, Wine

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• Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Roles, Surprising, Happened

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• In King’s Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man’s a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Player, Men

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• After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

  Shawn Johnson

  Running, Gymnastics, Years

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• Takeoff isn't scary at all - just the landing. Once you're in the air, you feel that sense of freedom of no limits.

  Jessica Cox

  Air, Scary, Limits

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

  Craig Ferguson

  Children, Moon, Long

  "Why Craig Ferguson Is 'American on Purpose'". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2009.

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• Expect to get more than you expected [from Crash Landing project]. Expect more than a mixtape.

  Kid Ink

  Mixtapes, Crash, Projects

  Source: www.hotnewhiphop.com

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• It was very strange, because my father [ Erwin Rommel] received the first call at seven o'clock in the morning. And [Hans] Speidel told my father, "I will call you up in one hour when I see more clearly what's going on." After an hour, Speidel said, "Yes, the landing took place in Normandy." And the German Navy had told my father that it was too stormy. And that the British and the Americans and the French can't come. And my father believed him.

  Manfred Rommel

  Morning, Father, Navy

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two months later and I assumed by then, "of course, everybody knows." Nobody knew. There was a news report in the Wall Street Journal, in the petroleum journals, and in some small newspapers, but not in the mainstream press.

  Noam Chomsky

  Wall, Marine, Two

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Moon, Thinking, People

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• It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fall, Mermaid, Pool

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush.

  George Saunders

  Elderly, Land, Games

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• This landing is gonna get pretty interesting. Define "interesting". "Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die"? [on speakerphone]: This is the captain: we have a little problem with our entry sequence so we may experience some slight turbulence, then explode.

  Joss Whedon

  Interesting, May, Littles

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• At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into another faint. But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it; she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux's feet.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Beautiful, Mother, Disappointment

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.64, Candlewick Press

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• Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Men, Imagination, Making Love

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• He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Fall, Wind

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.178, Penguin

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• What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim meets and I could hear his whistle when my head was underwater, even if he did yell at me afterward for not trying harder. I miss going to the library. I miss the smell of clothes fresh out of the dryer. I miss diving off the highest board and nailing the landing. I miss waffles" - p. 272.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Smell

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• Sabrina turned back to the house and saw the horrible truth- a pair of legs was sticking out from beneath it and they were wearing a pari of shiny silver shoes with a remarkable red tint to them. She suddenly realized they hadn't just entered a story. They had entered one of the most famous stories ever told. "Daphne, I don't think we're in Ferryport Landing anymore.

  Michael Buckley

  Thinking, Shoes, House

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• Maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and i gotta tell you, friends, to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Thinking, Land

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by David Levithan, 2011.

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