Flight Behavior Quotes

#1. I never learn anything from listening to myself (Ovid Byron, in Flight Behavior)

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

George Santayana

#3. Justina's life had been exemplary, but by ending it she seemed to have disgraced us all.

John Cheever

#4. [Mrs. Clare] is a gaunt, trouser-wearing, woolen-shirted, cowboy-booted, ginger-colored, gingery-tempered woman of unrevealed age ("That's for me to know, and you to guess") but promptly revealed opinions, most of which are announced in a voice of rooster-crow altitude and penetration.

Truman Capote

#5. There were others, such as Jack London,who offered their readers such a respite from the miserable horror of existence that their books were like gifts from the gods. (Character of Tristan Sadler in "the Absolutist")

John Boyne

#6. I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others.

John Ryman

#7. Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

Charles Simonyi

#8. Curiosity is called curiosity because of how curiously it can creep into people's behavior no matter what dangers are around.

Elizabeth Newton

#9. How differently we behave in other peoples countries ... no sooner than we think we can get away with it, we do as we please. It doesn't require the breakdown of a social order. It takes a six-hour plane flight.

Aminatta Forna

#10. This may be a shitty work environment, but OSHA doesn't have any guidelines when it comes to ghosts. We'll have to make up our own as we go.

Cherie Priest

#11. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions.

Gloria Steinem