Altimeter Quotes

#1. Flying is an art of absorbing the information from more than one reference, primary and secondary, and then using this information to decide how to manipulate the controls to achieve a desired result. The altimeter is the secondary reference for determining if the nose attitude is correct.

Jerry Eichenberger

#2. The altimeter had been damaged along the way, but the few bottles that we brought along to wash down the ordinary expedition rations were fine. True, a bottle gives only a vague indication of altitude, but can you drink an altimeter?

Erhard Loretan

#3. A stood for altimeter. It told how high a man flew. B stood for boost. It told the power in the engines. C stood for compass. It told in which direction a man was proceeding. It was delightfully simple.

Ernest K. Gann

#4. I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

Kelly Clarkson

#5. I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

Robert Redford

#6. The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't

Todd Blackledge

#7. I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good.

Jane Austen

#8. You are a soulless monster whose fright mask is incapable of capturing human expressions.

Colson Whitehead

#9. Give yourself time just to be with yourself.

Maya Angelou

#10. The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Washington Irving

#11. Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like ships driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish

Walter Scott

#12. All the rules changed. I'm holding you hostage, pretty. Who the hell do you think you are?"
"Just an old lady trying to make things right.

Cat Porter

#13. Gagging didn't make him angry, it made him horny. The sadistic kind of horny that led to worse things.

Pepper Winters

#14. let us not abandon all hope before we have set our hands to the task. Let us not lay down our rod and staff if we do not have the desired success at once. What is impossible for men remains possible for God. Eventually God's hour must come, if only we wait for it.

Philip Jacob Spener

#15. It's said the difference between one friend and none is infinity.

Ken Bruen