Paratrooper Quotes

#1. Once I heard a young paratrooper instructor explain, "The jump really isn't so bad. It's the waiting to jump that gets a fellow.

David J. Schwartz

#2. 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

#3. In early May 1968, RT Lion was joined by a wiry, tough-as-nails little paratrooper who introduced himself as Lou "Jake Three Zero" DeSeta. DeSeta had served with the 173rd Airborne Brigade for 13 months and had participated in the fabled Battle of Dak To.

John Meyer

#4. Feeling like a paratrooper about to jump, knowing my chute was packed by people who don't care how hard I land.

J. Mark Bertrand

#5. I have jumped out of airplanes but I was not technically a paratrooper. I was an infantryman and a night fighter, anti-terrorist.

Mark Helprin

#6. Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel? ... Sometimes he makes us live.

Stephen King

#7. Life is good for dreamers, if you are awake you're missing on some great fun

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#8. A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

Frances Mayes

#9. People who believe in something for which there is not a shred of evidence act on that belief and, above all, impose their beliefs on others, they make me cross, and they make me especially cross when they impose their beliefs on defenceless children.

Richard Dawkins

#10. By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.

Jacqueline Kelly

#11. I wanted to go to the rooftree of Maine to start my trip before turning west. It seemed to give the journey a design, and everything in the world must have design or the human mind rejects it. But in addition it must have purpose or the human conscience shies away from it. Maine

John Steinbeck

#12. I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.

R. Scott Bakker

#13. Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#14. For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

Guillermo Del Toro

#15. I'm not really a child of this '120 TV channels, a billion websites' era. I tried to live that for a long time but recently realized I don't get anything from it. I told myself it was luxury, but it was really only annoying. I'd rather just watch the same 50 movies over and over.

Bill Callahan

#16. Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.

Jeff Daniels