I watched him strap on his harness and helmet, climb into the cockpit and, minutes later, a black dot falls off the wing two thousand feet above our field. At almost the same instant, a white streak behind him flowered out into the delicate wavering muslin of a parachute -- a few gossamer yards grasping onto air and suspending below them, with invisible threads, a human life, and man who by stitches, cloth, and cord, had made himself a god of the sky for those immortal moments.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

John Selden

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

Demian Bichir

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

Jean Baudrillard

Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.

Orson Scott Card

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

David Mellor

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

George W. Bush

I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.

Carrie Underwood

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.

Ken Blanchard

Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.

Nicola Cabibbo

I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.

Joan Blondell

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

Adam Lambert