Airfield Lighting Quotes

#1. They were so taken by the beauty of her voice that they wanted to cover her mouth with their mouth, drink in. Maybe music could be transferred, devoured, owned. What would it mean to kiss the lips that had held such a sound?

Ann Patchett

#2. Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

Horace

#3. He hit terminal velocity and kept accelerating,

Lev Grossman

#4. It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

John Fowles

#5. If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.

G. Gordon Liddy

#6. States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Noam Chomsky

#7. My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. People naturally impose a narrative story-line upon their experiences. Autobiographical writing allows a person to cast their experiences into a narrative thread and organize their thoughts based not upon conjecture but with applied reason.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#9. Because there's beauty in the breakdown.

Imogen Heap