Afterburner Quotes

#1. If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.

Salman Rushdie

#2. I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again.

Gary Snyder

#3. The curse is an incredible set of blue balls.

Gore Verbinski

#4. I almost died. Fortunately, my mother was a nurse. She gave me a shot of something, and things turned out brilliantly.
Lucky me, I thought. Why couldn't his mother have been a telephone operator?

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#5. I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.

Holly Madison

#6. I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.

Abbie Cornish

#7. Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In fact, if the Democrats do their job, it can just as easily become a platform for addressing the greatest issues of them all.

Thomas Frank

#8. When the afterburner lights, I haven't got 5,000 horsepower. I've got 10,000 horsepower, and possibly the biggest accident you've ever seen in your life.

Richard Hammond

#9. I am always trying to convey something that can't be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

Franz Kafka

#10. It is true that getting into writing as a career can sometimes feel like you are trying to throw ten coins up in the air and have them all land on heads,

Jan Doncom

#11. Flames curled out of all the windows next door. The rooftop beyond that was a lake of fire. Every building in sight was burning. The air was filled with crackling and popping sounds, with shrieks and screams coming from the street below.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#12. The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.

Robert Crippen

#13. Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Charles Dudley Warner

#14. I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#15. On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives.

Marlene Dietrich