Quotes About Refueling

#1. I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.

Sinbad

#2. Imagine our descendants in the year 2200 or 2500. They might liken us to aliens who have treated the Earth as if it were a mere stopover for refueling, or even worse, characterize us as barbarians who would ransack their own home.

Paul J. Crutzen

#3. When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.

Buzz Aldrin

#4. On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.

Annie Jacobsen

#5. Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.

Nancy Gibbs

#6. Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Immanuel Kant

#7. Fashion is fun, but it's not that important, really, is it? It's important to have other intellectual and creative interests.

Jerry Hall

#8. The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.

Jim Hightower

#9. Is it wrong, Hector? he thought. That I should love a man who might have killed you?

Diana Gabaldon

#10. There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with.

Dan Hill

#11. Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

Paul Davies

#12. POET
If not in a place, where are the People weeping?
LIBERAL
They creep weeping in the face, not place.
POET
Is it something with which we may cope
The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?

Allen Tate

#13. Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#14. It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

Rumi

#15. I think I'm a tough person, but for sure, I would talk under torture.

Sophie Marceau

#16. I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
(Audrey Hepburn: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Magazine, December 7, 1953)

Audrey Hepburn

#17. Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they're stupid.

Burnie Burns