Little Manhattan  - Quotes

 Gabe:
Suddenly, I knew what I had to do. Love isn't about ridiculous little words. Love is about grand gestures. Love is about airplanes pulling banners over stadiums, proposals on jumbo-trons, giant words in sky writing. Love is about going that extra mile even if it hurts, letting it all hang out there. Love is about finding courage inside of you that you didn't even know was there.
 



The Wonder of It All  - Quotes

 Alan Bean:
All of us came to NASA to ... because we were good at flying high-performance airplanes, we were good at doing the things in the best airplanes that there were, okay? And suddenly the space program shows up, so now we get a chance to do those things in a spaceship, which is even more complicated and even more difficult, even more dangerous, so that appealed to all of us.
 

Loose Change: Second Edition  - Quotes

 Narrator:
So what brought down the WTC? Let's ask the experts. Van Romero, Vice President for Research at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology: "My opinion is, based on the videotapes, that after the airplanes hit the WTC there were some explosive devices inside the buildings that caused the towers to collapse." Ten days later: "Certainly the fire is what caused the building to fail." Why would Romero change his mind so suddenly?
 



Anne Carson  - Quotes

 [Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let 

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Steven Wright  - Quotes

 Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff? 

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Don DeLillo  - Quotes

 The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the steep glide began, people rose, fell, collided, swam in their seats. Then the serious screaming and moaning began. Almost immediately a voice from the flight deck was heard on the intercom:  

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John Steinbeck  - Quotes

 Old Tom giggled,  

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