Airstrip Quotes

#1. After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

Tom Hooper

#2. As I've already mentioned, 1984 and I were getting on famously. A no-frills setup, run without sentiment, snobbery or cultural favouritism, Airstrip One seemed like my kind of town. (I saw myself as an idealistic young corporal in the Thought Police.)

Martin Amis

#3. Take a guy who can walk on water, who can raise people from the dead, who can look at you and tell you what you had for breakfast ... if a guy like that can't find twelve trustworthy mates, who can? Stop at eleven and call it done, that's the moral of that story.

Liam Perrin

#4. If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care?

Lord Dunsany

#5. Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.

Marcel Duchamp

#6. He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your kids they have siblings ... " He couldn't imagine any child-raising guru taking the trouble to write that down. Maybe there was a gap in the market.

Nick Hornby

#7. WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. In our youth, if we survive them, they're called learning experiences or teachable moments or some-such. And that which does not maim or kill us usually makes us stronger, albeit sometimes also sadder and more cynical.

Charles Stross

#8. Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.

Al Yankovic

#9. The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can't hear you.

Holly Robinson

#10. A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

James Madison

#11. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

Dalai Lama

#12. We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.

C.S. Lewis

#13. Despite 'Mod Squad's hit status, I never really made the inner connection that I was contributing.

Peggy Lipton

#14. That would be our luck.

Gillian Flynn

#15. You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos.

Roswell Rudd

#16. I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

Michael Caine

#17. Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

Thomas Jefferson