Malan Quotes

#1. Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.

Damon Galgut

#2. A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

Oscar Wilde

#3. Always turn and face the attack.

Adolph Malan

#4. I'm not going to make a big deal about a few tummy flutters because ... dead people, old people, even furniture would get butterflies if they met this guy.

Anne Eliot

#5. She has probably never had a real man in her life; never felt a dick slide so deep she sees God.

Roxy Sloane

#6. The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it.

Isaac Marion

#7. I always think everybody has only one major heartbreak in their life. If you think you've had two, you can't have. The big one just musn't have happened to you yet - so watch your back. If you'd had it, you wouldn't mistake it for anything else.

Joanna Barnard

#8. I try to make a habit of getting things hopelessly wrong.

Leigh Bardugo

#9. INITIATIVE, AGGRESSION, AIR DISCIPLINE, and TEAM WORK are words that MEAN something in Air Fighting.

Adolph Malan

#10. In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it was made.

Solomon Caesar Malan

#11. Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.'

Adolph Malan

#12. Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area.

Adolph Malan

#13. When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.

Adolph Malan

#14. I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

Shelby Foote

#15. Whilst shooting think of nothing else; brace the whole of the body; have both hands on the stick; concentrate on your ring sight.

Adolph Malan

#16. Always keep a sharp lookout. "Keep your finger out"!

Adolph Malan

#17. You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

James A. Baldwin

#18. Go in quickly - Punch Hard - Get out!

Adolph Malan

#19. Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.

Adolph Malan

#20. Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

Larry Elder

#21. Height gives you the initiative.

Adolph Malan

#22. Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.

William Butler Yeats