Battle Of Brisbane Quotes

#1. MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!

Ernest K. Gann

#2. You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you've done nothing good for yourself. That's the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.

Dave Eggers

#3. Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

Piet Mondrian

#4. The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

Richard Baxter

#5. I think mothers get a raw deal in American culture, so I've been defending them. I have three daughters, and I know that as they become mothers, they got a lot more gentle towards me!

Tyne Daly

#6. The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#7. Who is really in charge of this planet?

Carl Sagan

#8. When you are corn and roses and at rest
I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost
To haunt the scene where I was happiest
To bend above the thing I loved the most

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#9. My opponent's self-confidence is usually my best asset.

Megan Whalen Turner

#10. If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

Scott Hahn

#11. All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.

George R R Martin

#12. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Peter F. Drucker

#13. Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.

Katarina Witt

#14. He pointed to the board where the word 'alliteration' had been written in handwriting far better than mine, which on good days looks like it came from the hand of a blind doctor writing his own morphine scripts in an earthquake.

Robert Wilder