Yves Rossy Quotes

#1. One of the most touching things my mother said to me was that if I ever wanted to come back to live in India, she would build me a home and go out and work hard so that I could be happy.

Saroo Brierley

#2. Hold on tightly - let go lightly

Belle De Jour

#3. I never fell in love with her so I guess the part of the brain that controls love doesn't respond to being called a dick.'
'For your sake, I'm hoping no part of your brain responds to being called a dick.'
'Fair point.

Cath Crowley

#4. When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

Beyonce Knowles

#5. As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.

Yves Rossy

#6. I was always pretty good at designing things.

Yves Rossy

#7. I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.

Yves Rossy

#8. Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

Thomas A Kempis

#9. You can still be strong and be feminine.

Shannon Tweed

#10. I'd rather be a victor than a victim.

Robert Kiyosaki

#11. People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really ... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

Serj Tankian

#12. The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

Aleister Crowley

#13. The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that.

Michael Pollan

#14. One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

Edward Snowden

#15. I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.

Yves Rossy

#16. Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'

Charles Duhigg

#17. When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.

Yves Rossy

#18. Flying is absolute freedom. I know the feeling of flying from various aircraft. But there was always something surrounding me that I had to control. As Fusion Man, it's like I am naked, I only have the wings that carry me. It's like a dream.

Yves Rossy

#19. Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.

Frank Nugent

#20. I'm not playing with death, I'm playing with life.

Yves Rossy

#21. I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.

Yves Rossy