Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. – Gregory Pappy Boyington
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There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadnt. – Ernest Hemingway
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldnt really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by. – Johann von Goethe
I think its one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because theres so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large. – Garry Shandling
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. – Roland Barthes