Louise Thaden Quotes

#1. When we lose our innocence - when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there's death in the pot - we take leave of our sense.

Annie Dillard

#2. gentle and innocent as wolves
as tricky as a prince

Gary Snyder

#3. If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband.

Louise Thaden

#4. Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.

Judy Blume

#5. There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an aversion, partially because of this, by executives of those companies whose activities require employing pilots.

Louise Thaden

#6. We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor ...
When I say this, it should mean laughter,
not poison.

Richard Siken

#7. In this particular lifestyle the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

Philip K. Dick

#8. Fiction is hardly ever fiction.

Cyma Rizwaan Khan

#9. Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

#10. It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas.

Arto Lindsay

#11. I don't know whether to admit it or not. You think I should tell them, Snerdley? Okay. Folks, some good friends of mine who live here in Palm Beach bought a Smart Car ... and there's a picture of me in it.

Rush Limbaugh

#12. A pilot who says he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying.

Louise Thaden

#13. Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour

Henri Matisse

#14. Gambling is only the resource of those who do not know what to do with themselves

Jean-Jacques Rousseau