Top 100 Parachute Quotes
#1. When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
Nancy Gibbs
#2. The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.
David Simon
#3. They plummeted toward the volcano as their largest piece of luggage - the forty-foot-tall Athena Parthenos - trailed after them, leashed to a harness on Nico's back like a very ineffective parachute.
Rick Riordan
#4. With a groan, he let his head fall into his hands. His life was officially a bad eighties movie. Without the parachute pants.
Charlie Cochet
#5. In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It's like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don't want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever.
Jorge Bucay
#6. That's like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down.
Kelli Jae Baeli
#7. Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt.
Charles Bukowski
#8. When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.
Francis Ford Coppola
#9. To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
Valentina Tereshkova
#10. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
George Bernard Shaw
#11. Beth's fingers trembled in his hair, and her forehead dropped against his. A heavy, wet tear fell onto Lincoln's lips, and he licked it. He pulled her close, as close as he could. Like he didn't care for the moment whether she could breathe. Like there were two of them and only one parachute.
Rainbow Rowell
#12. There was a regulation that if they remained at large in enemy territory for some weeks longer, they could be repatriated to the United States. It was for this that they had made a hazardous parachute jump and destroyed an expensive, very slightly damaged aeroplane.
Evelyn Waugh
#13. Each of us as he receives his private trouncings at the hands of fate is kept in good heart by hearing of the moth in his brother's parachute and the scorpion in his neighbor's underwear.
N. F. Simpson
#14. According to the local gossip," Gertie said, "Beulah was over the moon for this guy. She even mailed him a pair of her underwear." "If he was really a marine," Ida Belle said, "he could have used them as a parachute.
Jana Deleon
#15. In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.
Mark Burnett
#16. A closed mind is like a parachute malfunction, a mind like a parachute only works if it is fully open.
Brian Michael Good
#17. Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing.
Robert G. Allen
#18. Leap of faith. Shit, no parachute. - Katherine Yunker
Larry Smith
#19. What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.
Ellen DeGeneres
#20. The sky in Seattle is so low, it felt like God had lowered a silk parachute over us.
Maria Semple
#21. Your mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work unless it's open.
Jordan Maxwell
#22. One rose leaf, falling from an enormous height, like a little parachute dropped from an invisible balloon, turns, flutters waveringly.
Virginia Woolf
#23. I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now you could say he was all right because he was able to jump, but you could also say he was not all right because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.
Robert Preston
#24. Your mind is like a parachute : it's no use unless it's open. -the Spectator, 1883
Samantha Cote
#25. I said [to my mom], "I want to go to the parachute regiment." She said, "Whew, that's tough. But okay, I understand."
Scott Raab
#27. Love is like skydiving without a parachute.
Lois Greiman
#28. I know the mind, like the parachute, is most valuable open.
Dan S. Kennedy
#29. Water- the ace of elements. Water dives from the clouds without parachute, wings or safety net. Water runs over the steepest precipice and blinks not a lash. Water is buried and rises again; water walks on fire and fire gets the blisters.
Tom Robbins
#30. I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army].
Scott Raab
#31. We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
C.S. Lewis
#32. You imagine blank verse is a liberation, but no. Discard rhyme, you discard a parachute ...
David Mitchell
#33. Isn't that what I always think when I get The Poor Motherless Girl Look? Like I've been shoved out of the airplane without a parachute because mothers are the parachutes.
Jandy Nelson
#34. Multiple Inheritance is like a parachute. You don't often need it, but when you do, you really need it.
Grady Booch
#35. Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#36. Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfying
relationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for a
marathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.
Gina Greenlee
#37. Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.
David Bailey
#38. A matter, as the famous book intoned, of finding the shade of the parachute that best complemented you. But really: With no parachute at all you'd hit the pavement so hard it probably wouldn't even hurt, and you'd unleash a whole new color palate-bone, blood, muscle-in the process.
Elisa Albert
#39. Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
Chris Cleave
#40. I'm free falling without a parachute in sight.
Heather Lyons
#41. The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it
Paulo Coelho
#42. Falling in love feels like jumping out of a plane without a parachute and somehow landing safely and then wanting to do it again the next day.
Victoria Denault
#43. In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not.
Claudio Ranieri
#44. While the lake lapped at their feet and the mountains absorbed their calls and the sky flung its blue parachute over their heads, he thought how wonderful it was that life was, after all, more simple than he had ever imagined.
Helen Simonson
#45. A well trained skydiving instructor can't save one from a broken parachute.
Bryan Way
#46. The white dress, made of billowy fabric like a cargo parachute, made her look like the female Boss Hogg trying out for a part in a community theater presentation of Brigadoon.
Jon Konrath
#47. There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'
Valentina Tereshkova
#48. If you think of the Apollo capsule coming into Earth with a parachute, the Mars atmosphere is just so thin, you've got to find some way of slowing yourself down really rapidly.
Ellen Stofan
#49. Do not argue with a spuse who is packing your parachute.
Anonymus Autor
#50. When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.
Matthew Parris
#51. War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.
Anthony Doerr
#52. She'd jumped out of plenty of planes. Albeit with a parachute in place, but she pushed that worry aside.
Robin Bielman
#53. you don't need a parachute to skydive. You need a parachute to skydive twice.
Steve Berry
#54. Testing a parachute drop of a heavy object is not simple.
Henry Spencer
#55. It's become glib political conventional wisdom in Washington that a massive spending plan will provide a parachute rescue for a cliff-diving economy - landing it safely and with strong enough legs to move toward a healthy future.
Nina Easton
#56. When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!
Yuri Gagarin
#57. Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring.
Steve Antin
#58. Oh... I just leave it...
...
Words have as much weight as trying to jump from the 123333333334 Floor without a parachute and to be alive.
Deyth Banger
#59. The question: What color is my parachute?
The answer: blood red, brains gray, sludge black.
Jesse Petersen
#60. If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.
Dan Poynter
#61. Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.
Henry Mintzberg
#62. The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
Sally Ride
#63. It suddenly occurred to him that for the first time in years, they were about to be alone together for more than five minutes.
Just the two of them. On a small jet. Tens of thousands of feet in the air.
Christ.
Maybe he should've packed a parachute, just in case.
Elle Kennedy
#64. Christ. He was going to hell.
The thought should have helped with the erection. It didn't. He doubted anything would. Not even thoughts of the Colonel pushing him out of an aircraft from six thousand feet without a parachute was going to kill it.
Amy Andrews
#65. Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.
John Ridley
#66. My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there's air, water in there. I was freaking out.
Ryan Lochte
#67. The secret shape of this book is a parachute
all the lines leading to the person hanging there
drifting on the wind and always falling
waiting for the mists to clear
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
#68. Now I knew why they said you fell in love. I plummeted with no parachute, and hoped like hell he would catch me when I hit the bottom. Only, there hadn't been a bottom. There was just him.
Alessandra Torre
#69. My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.
Andrea Gibson
#70. As soon as I jumped out of the airplane, I realized I had forgotten my parachute. Thank God we were still on the runway.
Demetri Martin
#71. At the possibility of truly being seen, something in his chest seemed to snap open like a parachute.
Michael Chabon
#72. I was half expecting him to pop out of a forested area nearby locked in mortal engagement with a panther, or make a dramatic appearance by falling out of the sky with a parachute. Something death defying.
Priscilla West
#73. If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve bracchia across (over twenty-five feet) and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any height without sustaining injury. [His concept of the parachute.]
Leonardo Da Vinci
#74. A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
Frank Zappa
#75. I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.
Elizabeth Emken
#76. Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.
Robert Kiyosaki
#77. Love was an accident waiting to happen, he decided. It was like throwing a parachute out of a plane and jumping after it, convinced that you could catch it on the way down. He was falling but it didn't feel like a death plummet.
Michael Robotham
#78. It's okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying,
like freefalling to earth without a parachute. But it's vital to our wellbeing as we process the deep anguish.
Lynda Cheldelin Fell
#79. It's not called 'falling in love' for no reason. It's scary! It's like jumping out of a plane with no parachute. Or bungee-jumping without your cord attached. Or hang-gliding with only one wing.
Andrea Lochen
#80. When the person with a chokehold on your soul says, "Jump," you pack your parachute and hope for a soft landing.
Jamie Wyman
#81. You cannot know if your parachute will work unless you jump out of the plane.
Mario Diana
#82. The jump did not go as planned. My father gashed his head and tore his parachute on the tail of the plane. He hit the water hard and submerged. When he surfaced, his head was bleeding, he was vomiting from swallowing seawater, and he had been stung by a Portuguese man-of-war.
George W. Bush
#83. I always keep my mind open. For me, a mind has to work like like a parachute, works only if it's open.
Rickson Gracie
#84. Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
Cory Lidle
#85. Have you ever jumped out of a plane in a parachute, down to meet up with people who'd take selfies of your blood on their faces for breakfast?
Cameron Jace
#87. The eighties were a strange time for teenage fashion. We wore silk blouses and shoulder pads, neon earrings and jodhpur pants. Come to think of it, our pants were especially weird. We also wore stirrup pants, parachute pants, and velvet knickers. It was a real experimental pant time.
Amy Poehler
#88. Even when God is your co-pilot, it pays to pack a parachute.
Dean Koontz
#89. But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?
Eugene Levy
#90. If I lose and have nothing when this is over, you can still drop me with my guitar by parachute anywhere in America; I'll walk to the nearest roadhouse, find a pickup band and light up your night. Just because I can.
Bruce Springsteen
#91. The mind is like a parachute, it works best when it is open.
Robert Anthony
#92. Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.
Scott Adams
#93. I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.
Charles Lindbergh
#94. If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.
Lauryn Hill
#95. Because from my personal experience, Dylan, falling in love with you is like jumping out of an airplane with no parachute. It's fun as hell, a rush of adrenaline, until the inevitable crash comes where you leave and my heart splatters all over the ground.
Katie Kacvinsky
#96. Your mind is like a parachute, It works best open..
Jim Marrs
#97. He checked his parachute and launched himself into the Sea of Sarcasm.
Havana Red
Leonardo Padura
#98. I am classified as a disabled veteran. The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty ... from parachute jumping to combat to gunshot wounds, all that stuff.
Richard Carmona
#99. Your mind is just like a parachute ! if you don't open it, it won't work !
Tom Evans
#100. All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
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