Parachutes Quotes - Page 3

• My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Fall, Mouths

  Tahereh Mafi (2014). “Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me”, p.56, Harper Collins

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• Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes you looked up and saw you were falling by yourself, the object of your desire still on the plane, not interested in jumping, watching you descend into that scary place alone.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Falling In Love, Jumping, Scary

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• Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Hero, Men, Thinking

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• I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.

  Elizabeth Emken

  Running, Careers, Office

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• All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Complaining, Dictator, Pregnant Women

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• For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Acting, Building

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• My mockingjay pin now lives with Cinna's outfit, but there's the gold locket and the silver parachute with the spile and Peeta's pearl. I knot the pearl into the corner of the parachute, bury it deep in the recesses of the bag, as if it's Peeta's life and no one can take it away as long as I guard it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Long, Gold, Bags

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.146, Scholastic Inc.

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• I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game will be the focus of conversation, and distractions happy and sad will be the order of the day, not to mention millions of hangovers. I wouldn't buy a toaster or a parachute manufactured the day after Super Bowl XXIV. You cannot engender such torrid anticipation for an event so great that it requires Roman numerals as a suffix, then expect there to be no social repercussions at its end.

  Robert Klein

  Monday, Hangover, Order

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• When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Taken, Risk, Age

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• What can you say about a man who leaps from a helicopter over Manhattan without a parachute in the hope that by increasing his heart rate he'll transform into an iridescent lime-green behemoth so he can take on an even bigger behemoth? That he knows he's living in a computer-generated universe in which gravity is a feeble suggestion and nothing is remotely at stake, and that when he hits the ground he'll be replaced by a special effect. The Incredible Hulk is weightless-as disposable as an Xbox game.

  David Edelstein

  Xbox, Heart, Men

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• I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Sight, Names

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.347, Scholastic Inc.

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• We pulled the seeds out and scattered them on their flossy parachutes, leaving only the leathery brownish yellow tongue, soft as the inside of an elbow.

  Margaret Atwood

  Yellow, Leaving, Elbows

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• I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now, you could say he was all right, because he was able to jump. But you could also say he was not all right, because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.

  Robert Preston

  Able, Neglected

  "Fictional character: Dr. Irving Finegarten". "S.O.B.", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• It was autumn, the springtime of death. Rain spattered the rotting leaves, and a wild wind wailed. Death was singing in the shower. Death was happy to be alive. The fetus bailed out without a parachute. It landed in the sideline Astroturf, so upsetting the cheerleaders that for the remained of the afternoon their rahs were more like squeaks.

  Tom Robbins

  Rain, Autumn, Wind

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• It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.

  Suzanne Collins

  Rocks, Sky, Waves Breaking

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1375, Scholastic Inc.

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• If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

  Lauryn Hill

  War, Reading, Water

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• We're all gonna land, we don't have rocket packs that last forever. But these things that we love, these things that give us purpose, these moments along the way are our parachutes. So I feel very fortunate to have all of these. Art and my family are pretty much my biggest parachutes.

  Frank Iero

  Art, Land, Giving

  Source: indientry.com

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• I like taking my time and seeing the things around me and appreciating the now. I started to realize that the things that helped me do that were these things that brought me love, brought me joy. And if we're all just falling towards an eventual end, falling towards the ground, then these things are parachutes.

  Frank Iero

  Fall, Appreciate, Joy

  Source: indientry.com

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• Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

  L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  Optimistic, Mind, Fists

  L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “The Parafaith War”, p.168, Macmillan

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• Charlie had Sophie strapped to his chest like a terrorist baby bomb when he came down the back steps. She had just gotten to the point where she could hold up her head, so he had strapped her in face-out so she could look around. The way her arms and legs waved around as Charlie walked, she looked as if she was skydiving and using a skinny nerd as a parachute.

  Christopher Moore

  Baby, Nerd, Looks

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• I go to the saltwater and wash off the blood, trying to decide which I hate more, pain or itching. Fed up, I stomp back onto the beach, turn my face upward and snap, "Hey, Haymitch, if you're not too drunk, we could use a little something for our skin." It's almost funny how quickly the parachute appears above me. I reach up and the tube lands squarely in my open hand. "About time" I say, but I can't keep the scowl on my face. Haymitch. What I wouldn't give for five minutes of conversation with him.

  Suzanne Collins

  Beach, Pain, Hate

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• In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.

  Mark Burnett

  War, Airplane, Two

  "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships" by Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.

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• There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of the Space Shuttle. . . . You don't put parachutes on airliners because the margin of safety is built into the machine. The 727 airplanes we fly are proven vehicles with levels of safety and redundancy built in. The shuttle is a hand-made piece of experimental gear.

  Frank Borman

  Airplane, Moon, Space

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• I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.

  Sebastian Junger

  Real, Thinking, Bridges

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• But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?

  Eugene Levy

  Night, Thinking, Sea

  "Eugene Levy: 'American Pie got kinda graphic'" by atherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.

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