Quotes of: Parachutes Keyword

A brick could be attached to a parachute and tossed out of an airplane, to test if it opens up properly. Well, the good news is the parachute worked as planned, but the bad news is the only other parachute on board is strapped to my back, and I’m a...

Brick and Blanket

Silencio Se oye el pulso del mundo como nunca pálido La tierra acaba de alumbrar un árbol.

Altazor, Or, a Voyage in a Parachute: Poem in VII Cantos

In an essay titled A View From the Front Line, Jencks described her experience with cancer as like being woken up midflight on a jumbo jet and then thrown out with a parachute into a foreign landscape without a map: "There you are, the future patient...

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

A matter, as the famous book intoned, of finding the shade of the parachute that best complemented you. But really: With no parachute at all you'd hit the pavement so hard it probably wouldn't even hurt, and you'd unleash a whole new color palate-bon...

The Book of Dahlia

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.

I'll Give You the Sun

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

Zora Neale Hurston

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

William Stafford

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

Sir James Dewar

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Thomas Dewar

Do not argue with a spuse who is packing your parachute.

Anonymus Autor

A blanket could be used as a parachute, for jumping out of dreams.


Blanket

All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

Benny Hill

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

Joaquin Phoenix

I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.

Rhona Mitra

Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.

John Ridley

Even when God is your co-pilot, it pays to pack a parachute.

Brother Odd

My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there's air, water in there. I was freaking out.

Ryan Lochte

He checked his parachute and launched himself into the Sea of Sarcasm. --Havana Red

Leonardo Padura Fuentes

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.

Mark Burnett

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

Cory Lidle