Top 39 Quotes About Parachutes
#1. Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes.
Jim Barksdale
#2. Minds are like parachutes, they don't function unless they are open.
Philip C. Baridon
#3. At 10,000 feet, the 3 parachutes would come out, a little lower the pressure of the atmosphere outside was greater than inside, and we could smell the salt air and it was very encouraging to return to earth.
Buzz Aldrin
#5. Minds are like parachutes-not much good unless they are open.
Harvey MacKay
#6. The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.
Ken Curtis
#7. We pulled the seeds out and scattered them on their flossy parachutes, leaving only the leathery brownish yellow tongue, soft as the inside of an elbow.
Margaret Atwood
#8. Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
Thomas Dewar
#9. Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.
James Dewar
#10. Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.
Benny Hill
#11. Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#12. It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
Valentina Tereshkova
#13. History (that list
of ballooning wishes, flukes,
bent times, plunges and mistakes
clutched like parachutes)
is rolling itself up in your head
at one end unrolling at the other.
Margaret Atwood
#14. My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.
Tahereh Mafi
#15. Business people get many undeserved prizes - golden parachutes and bonuses even when companies fail. I don't think people should get rewarded for screwing up.
Mo Ibrahim
#16. 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
#17. Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes.
Cees Nooteboom
#19. Pussies [10w]
Pussies are like parachutes ~
they work best when wide open.
Beryl Dov
#20. For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.
Joaquin Phoenix
#21. I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.
John Zakour
#22. Japanese medical people are traditionally very strange and creepily poetic.
David Cronenberg
#23. Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24. if cant stop and smell the roses whats the pointof going through the garden?
Paris Dixon
#25. Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.
Matt Haig
#26. 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
#27. Selling and teaching demand that you develop your intrapersonal and interpersonal communication skills. You must be able to communicate with yourself as well as with others in a way that makes them buy your offering or benefit from the knowledge you want to impart.
Archibald Marwizi
#28. My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.
Andrea Gibson
#29. Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe. You can have a wardrobe malfunction if you don't choose the right thing to wear underneath!
Adriana Lima
#30. 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
#32. I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army].
Scott Raab
#34. It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed and our need for growth and our inability to imagine a world that is different from the selfish world we live in today.
Jeremy Jackson
#35. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa
#36. 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
#37. I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
Alan Arkin
#38. I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk?
Kazimir Malevich
#39. I hear that I'm funny, and I think I'm funny, but I go in all the time for multicam, and they say that I'm not big enough, or I'm too big. I'm so confused. Okay, well, I'm funny in real life.
Kirby Bliss Blanton
