Landing Quotes - Page 3

• Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

  Richard Branson

  Art, Calling, Half

  Sir Richard Branson (2010). “Reach for the Skies: Ballooning, Birdmen and Blasting into Space”, p.46, Random House

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• I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

  Winston Churchill

  Running, Adversity, Safe

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• For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various forms, from promiscuity, to eating disorders, to performance art. And I think it wasn't until I got cancer, where I was suddenly being pricked and ported and chemoed and operated on, that I suddenly just became body. I was just a body. And it was in that, in that finally landing in myself that I really discovered the world in my body.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, Cancer, Thinking

  "In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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• Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North.

  James Oliver Curwood

  Book, Adventure, White

  James Oliver Curwood (2015). “The Valley of Silent Men”, p.2, Booklassic

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• The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Rockets, Planets

  "Apollo in Perspective : Spaceflight Then and Now". Book by Jonathan Allday, 1999.

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• Doing things out of the ordinary - out of the box - like jumping out of airplanes and landing in cities that you've never been to before, then finding your way through. That's the type of trip that excites me.

  Dhani Jones

  Airplane, Jumping, Cities

  "Best Fantasy Football Tips From Dhani Jones". Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. September 4, 2014.

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• My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus!

  Richard M. Nixon

  Moon, Fake, Secret

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• Sometimes my life has been Odyssean - landing on strange islands of consciousness and reality and meeting very curious monsters who turn out to be very great teachers. Sometimes my life has been a quest for a grail of knowledge and education. Like Parsifal, my life has been a quest to pierce the veil, stumbling along but eventually finding it.

  Jean Houston

  Teacher, Reality, Islands

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.

  Salman Rushdie

  Love, Fall, Eye

  Salman Rushdie (2011). “The Moor's Last Sigh”, p.289, Random House

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• We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his whispered wisecracks in my ear. But there would be as well his willingness to reveal, or more his inability to conceal, that he had been silently rehearsing my name as he climbed the stairs behind me. There would be his willingness to bestow upon me the power to reassure him. He would trust me with his happiness.

  Alice McDermott

  Laughter, Silly, Names

  Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone”, p.163, A&C Black

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• It's too late to stop climate change, that's for sure, but we can still influence the degree of changes and the degree of impacts. We can prepare for a softer landing.

  Hermann E. Ott

  Impact, Climate, Degrees

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The eyes are the landing strip to the heart.

  Stan Dale

  Heart, Eye

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• Derek lunged. He hit me in the shoulder and knocked me to the floor, landing on top of me. His body jerked, like he'd been hit with the spell, and I let out a yelp, struggling to get up, but he held me down, whispering "I'm okay, it's okay" until the words penetrated.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Struggle, Whispering, Body

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• If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Eye, Moon, Russia

  "We must aim for Mars, says moonwalker". Interview with James M. Clash, www.smh.com.au. May 24, 2013.

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• I'm giddy. I am like an 8-year-old child, every day. I feel blessed for the opportunities. I feel blessed that people are responding to the work, and I'm landing myself in things that people far more talented than I am are allowing me to work on.

  Frank Grillo

  Children, Blessed, Opportunity

  Source: collider.com

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• To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Years, Chinese

  "Buzz Aldrin on Why We Should Go to Mars Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/buzz-aldrin-on-why-we-should-go-to-mars-66260324/#muQovUaWlr5GveW8.99 Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter". Interview with Amy Crawford, www.smithsonianmag.com. May 19, 2013.

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• Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.

  James Lipton

  Airplane, Thinking, Difficult

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Success, Beautiful, War

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.260, Regent College Publishing

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• Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Strong, Eye

  William Gurnall (2008). “Extracts from the Writings of William Gurnall”, p.45, Scripture Truth

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• Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.

  Cornel West

  Faith

  Cornel West (1993). “Prophetic Fragments”, p.7, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25]

  Tom Brokaw

  Military, Heart, Airplane

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• The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place.

  Bill Buxton

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• I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift in for a landing, their feet touch the ground and they trot forward from the continued motion of the glider, which billows down like a setting sun. I never get tired of watching them and I've seen them thousands of times. I always wondered what that kind of freedom would feel like.

  Deb Caletti

  Tired, Moon, Air

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Queen of Everything”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• Fifteen per cent of the population believe the moon landing was actually staged in a movie lot in Arizona and somewhat fewer still believe the Earth is flat. I think they all get together with the global warming deniers on a Saturday night and party

  Al Gore

  Believe, Future, Party

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• Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye.

  Terry Hanson

  Travel, Kissing, Thinking

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