Pappy Boyington Quotes

#1. I think that's what keeps you grounded - having your own life that's not directed by your job.

Phil Daniels

#2. Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.

Tina Brown

#3. Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

Pappy Boyington

#4. Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgment of a split second are what makes some pilot an ace, while others think back on what they could have done.

Pappy Boyington

#5. Socialism is nihilistic, in the henceforth precise sense that Nietzsche confers on the word. A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists.

Albert Camus

#6. There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a few glands.

Herbert M. Shelton

#7. Do whatever you like, go wherever you want, love however you feel it to be true. For if you wait, life won't do the same

Russ

#8. After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.)

Jeff Britting

#9. The air battle is not necessarily won at the time of the battle. The winner may have been determined by the amount of time, energy, thought and training an individual has previously accomplished in an effort to increase his ability as a fighter pilot.

Pappy Boyington