Airlifts Quotes

#1. On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

Tama Janowitz

#2. We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

Umberto Eco

#3. 'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

Evangeline Lilly

#4. Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#5. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them
then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

Mark Twain

#6. Which ensures that life gets lived in miniature. In lieu of the large feelings - sorrow, fury, joy - I had their junior counterparts - anxiety, irritation, excitement. But

Mary Karr

#7. Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.

David Bowie

#8. If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.

Evel Knievel

#9. As the historian Tom Standage observes, they were among the first to recognize the importance of trademarks and advertising, of slogans, logos ... . Since the remedies themselves usually cost very little to make, it made sense to spend money on marketing.

Steven Johnson

#10. The Universe is inevitable. The Universe is impossible

Nima Arkani-Hamed

#11. Life is too short to chase perfection, yet too long to be satisfied with mediocrity.

Russell Eric Dobda

#12. The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.

Gillian Roberts

#13. The greatest minds never realise their ideals in any matter;

Jerome K. Jerome

#14. Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

Timothy Noah

#15. I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

Michael Gira