On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary…

I am not a good shot. Few of us are. To make up for this I hold my fire until I have a shot…

— John C. Meyer

I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on…

— Robert Hanbury Brown

I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made…

— John Trevor Godfrey

Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse,…

— Erwin Chargaff

And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not…

— George Chapman

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality;…

— Kenneth Burke

“I accept your deflection and raise you another question.”

— Jessica Park

We not only need to train people, we also need to develop deflection technologies.

— Rusty Schweickart

You know, a meme is now circulating that's called the Ostrich Brigade. And it's used to describe all those people who are burying their…

— Dalia Mogahed

“But existence is a deflection.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art…

— Evelyn Underhill

I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away…

— Gale Harold

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's…

— Joanne Harris

I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I…

— Jackie Evancho

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw…

— Leo Tolstoy