Steve Fossett Quotes

#1. I loved every broken piece of her and was determined to make her whole again

Amy Lichtenhan

#2. Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

Daryl Gates

#3. As many numbers of people as are there, there are that many varieties of egoisms.

Dada Bhagwan

#4. Writers live in houses other people built.

Neil Gaiman

#5. I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't believe them. The tenor of almost all apologetics literature makes it plain that this is their intent.

Robert M. Price

#6. This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

Steve Fossett

#7. Steve Fossett and I would share a common belief that it is possible and good to challenge yourself to the extreme.

Tim Cope

#8. Ever since I was little I would always be singing and dancing. I learned dance moves from Michael Jackson and *Nsync. My brothers, Rydel, and I would always put on shows for family members in our basement and we charged everyone $1 to get in.

Riker Lynch

#9. I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.

Steve Fossett

#10. But Quintilius Rousse's sailors grinned in the saddle, saluting, and rode out in a thunder, horses trampling their own long shadows as they set their heads to the east.

Jacqueline Carey

#11. You can't let players do what they wish and be professional. That's a fact. As for the team, Boro had two internationals when I got there in 1995. Now they have more than 15. And they didn't cost the fortune some suggest.

Bryan Robson

#12. Writers tell you what to think. Great writers make you think.

Chloe Thurlow

#13. Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.

Steve Fossett

#14. I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.

Steve Fossett

#15. I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower.

Frank Zappa

#16. Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I'm not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation, communications, repairing the burners, taking care of the equipment.

Steve Fossett

#17. I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.

Louisa May Alcott

#18. I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

Steve Fossett

#19. People often assume I assume I am a thrill seeker, but I am not. I do not enjoy roller coasters, and you won't find me bungee-jumping ... It is a disadvantage that my pursuits are inherently dangerous. A large part of my effort is to reduce risk.

Steve Fossett

#20. Steve did not have a death wish. He had the exact opposite. His appetite for life was so strong, it outweighed all fear. So what if his choices shortened his life? His choices filled his life, and enriched the lives of those around him.

Richard Branson

#21. I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

Ben Harper

#22. The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

Steve Fossett

#23. Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#24. Boy Scouts does very well in making Scouts aware of character and integrity and ... virtues and incorporate [them] in their lives so that they carry themselves as [those] kind of [people] for the rest of their [lives].

Steve Fossett