Steve Fossett Quotes

A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A gas balloon, which usually uses helium, has the problem that the helium cools at night when the sun is not on it, and you have to throw ballast overboard to keep it from going to the surface.

Steve Fossett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: aviator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 22, 1944 - September 3, 2007

Topics

GreatDaySunFlyNightProblem

I just really, really, really hate to lose. Really.

Jeremy Lin

HateLoseJustReally

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

Maurice Maeterlinck

BelieveDoorsNothingWillHappen

Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter.

Steven Adler

LifeLoveGoodMusicThankfulPast

If you're going to kiss a man, let it be a beautiful man like Ed Speleers.

Rob James-Collier

BeautifulManKissYouGoingLike

When people come up to me and ask for my autograph and everything... I find it funny that people want my autograph.

Ron Stallworth

FunnyPeopleMeFindWantAsk

I think a lot of people are getting more serious about how to do the most good, but there is no road map. I'm hoping I can offer an example.

Mohnish Pabrai

GoodPeopleRoadThinkI CanMap

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.

Christina Ricci

TaxWantRingBreakJustEngaged

I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

Austin Butler

HomeStartingSchooledGradeSeventh

I talked to some vets in L.A. about what they go through and do they think about their experiences a lot. I got a wide array of answers. Some people get very emotional, which is understandable. Two of my best friends growing up are in the armed services, and getting to represent those guys was a big honor for me.

Austin Stowell

BestPeopleMeGrowing UpThinkGo

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

William Kingdon Clifford

GoodLiveResponsibilityManWorld

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Peter De Vries

ExperienceSchoolThinkingLearnGo

When I'm in a movie, what I always do, instead of sitting in a trailer or watching a DVD, is I go on the set and watch the director work and the actors work, and sometimes I'll hang out with B camera and watch what they're up to and ask questions because there's so much to learn about the medium.

Tim Blake Nelson

WorkLearnQuestionsCameraSitting

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