Alexander De Seversky Quotes

#1. Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.

Alexander P. De Seversky

#2. Everyone wants a Christmas tree. If you had a Christmas tree Santa would bring you stuff! Like hair curlers and slut shoes.

Janet Evanovich

#3. What makes me laugh about politics, sometimes, is it seems like once we get to a point where our problems are seemingly unsolvable, it's because we're looking through a wrong point of view. If we turn the thing on its head, then maybe we might see it differently.

Dave Davies

#4. Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

Aldous Huxley

#5. Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.

Alexander P. De Seversky

#7. Nobody wants to make something that displeases people, but once you make a film, that's out of your control and you can't think about that. You just have to follow your head and make sure that you're satisfied by putting down what you intended.

Clint Eastwood

#8. When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

Gabrielle Zevin

#9. I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

Andy Garcia

#10. Life is going to happen to you. Your destiny will be found in how you respond to life. Most let fate find them; the few find their destiny.

Shay Dawkins

#11. Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!

Felix Alba-Juez

#12. I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

Rufus Sewell

#13. The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

Hans Selye

#14. History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Karl Marx