Chuck Yeager Quotes

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

Chuck Yeager

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: aviator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 13, 1923

Topics

GrowPushYouBackKnowWant

I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my mother in Shanghai.

Jenny Zhang

MotherAmericanDownPersonStreet

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

John Henrik Clarke

PeopleYouOppressionFirstConvince

Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.

Tom Stoppard

MeProblemPhoneDirectorWouldWho

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.

Michel Houellebecq

AttitudeDeathCrazyFaceYouRebel

We're so willing to dehumanize entire populations in order for us to conveniently go along with our lives. We know exactly one North Korean, for example. The rest of them, we don't know - but it makes it very easy to bomb North Korea if we pretend they're all one person. Literature makes it harder to dehumanize people in this way.

Min Jin Lee

PeopleRestLiteratureEasyPerson

Actually, if you ask my really close friends, they would say that 'Honeymoon' is more me than anything else I've written.

Jason Robert Brown

MeFriendsYouSayMoreAnything

'Driving while black' was taught to me at a young age.

Colson Whitehead

AgeMeBlackDrivingYoungTaught

Infertility is this huge emotional roller coaster. If you want in your heart more than anything to have a baby, it's the hardest thing you will ever go through physically, emotionally, and financially.

Cindy Margolis

HeartBabyYouWantRoller Coaster

Alien abduction movies are always the scariest; no matter how cheesy they are, they still scare me for a week. I live by myself in my apartment, and I don't worry about intruders or robbery; I mostly worry about alien abduction or evil, mean ghosts.

Claire Coffee

LiveMyselfMeEvilWorryWeek

I don't like being surrounded by yes men.

Brad Paisley

MenYesSurroundedBeingLike

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

Brandon Flowers

GiftDirtyWhat IfSeenAmbitious

When things take a long time, I just get really stubborn.

Britney Spears

TimeStubbornLongLong TimeTake

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