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Douglas Bader Quotes

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

Douglas Bader

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: british
Birth: February 10, 1910 - September 5, 1982

Topics

Looking Flying Down Enemy Up Coast

The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.

Joe Henderson

Wait Chance First Next Improve Away

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

Jessica Williams

Create Race Everything Affects

As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.

Jessie Mueller

Experience Tools You Actor Always

Right after 9/11, I mean, every agency can give their own gradation, but a nice, popular rule of thumb is everybody doubled down. I ended up in the NSA with about twice as much money as I had prior to 9/11.

Michael Hayden

Money Down Nice Mean Right Own

I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever.

Amy Hempel

Destination Start Story End Know

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

Christopher Hitchens

Opposition

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

Cordell Hull

War Direction Development Limitless

I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I don't have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever.

Clay Shirky

Myself Commitment Career Go Never

I'd have to acknowledge that I have a weakness for the fairer sex - and I hope I never get over it.

Chuck Robb

Hope Weakness Sex Never Over Get

I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.

Brigitte Bardot

Think Know Way Think Big Big Like

Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.

Brian McKnight

Best Job Basketball Think Dream Go

There are plenty of people I've seen and thought that person is funny, or that person is really talented, and they've got something, but maybe the buying public doesn't see the same thing I see, or the stars don't align in the right way for them.

Wyatt Cenac

Funny Stars People Thought Person