Chesley Sullenberger Quotes

If you take one of the first flights out in the morning, typically the airplane and the crew have arrived the night before. When you're not waiting on an inbound flight, there are fewer delays.

Chesley Sullenberger

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MorningWaitingNightAirplaneYou

A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That's a super-interesting problem from an engineering perspective.

Michael Dickinson

PerspectiveAnimalBrainFlyProblem

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Stephen Fry

YourselfYouBackMoreHeightExtra

Any society that doesn't take care of its weaker younger members is not one to be proud of.

Stephanie March

SocietyProudCareTake CareTake

At Knopf, everything is inherited.

Sonny Mehta

EverythingInherited

I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all.

Tom Glazer

TimeNeverUpGotPerformingFull

Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.

Donald E. Graham

InternetDownGoingNewspapers

You don't often see vulnerability on TV, especially talk shows.

Chris Gethard

TimeLieConfidentJustWould

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.

Colum McCann

HistorySmallMomentsWayBecome

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

Breyten Breytenbach

HistoryWarMindBetterPowerful

In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.

Penelope Wilton

LifeDeepMy LifeAmericaRussia

I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

Seamus Heaney

IntelligenceThinkPoliticalAnalytic

If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward.

Todd Barry

WalkKissMeRestaurantWaveYou

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