Gordon Bethune Quotes

Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London.

Gordon Bethune

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ChangeBusinessChange The WorldButt

Nick can get up on stage and just wing it, whereas I would have to be taken to a mental institution.

Megan Mullally

StageUpMentalInstitutionGet

Although many people in Aceh are still poor and vulnerable, the province resembles nothing like the place I saw the day after the tsunami hit.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

DayPeoplePlaceNothingPoorSaw

I listen to a lot of Nashville local music, which, for the most part, is punk and grunge music but also alt-country stuff down here.

Soccer Mommy

MusicDownListenNashvillePunk

With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.

Robert Downey, Jr.

GoodRestSpeakThinkBetterHustle

I think the world of Chuck Berry.

Robbie Robertson

WorldThinkI ThinkBerryChuck

I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.

Mary Roach

AnimalThinkKindSleepingMindsUp

I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

Miley Cyrus

MeMomMatterSafeKeepHe

I wish I was a gorgeous mixologist, but that was not my god-given strength.

Jonathan Van Ness

StrengthWishI WishGorgeous

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

Jorge Amado

ChangeTodayTimeBelieveWrite

I think my biggest heartbreak was when I just couldn't get an American cheese cake/pie with a saltine cracker crust and green tomato sorbet to work out in my favor.

Christina Tosi

WorkGreenThinkAmericanCheese

The universe is wonderful, but only when there is somebody there to wonder at it.

Bob Shaw

UniverseWonderWonderfulOnly

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

MenLostWillReasonTyrantsGive

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