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The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping… — Billy Campbell
We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open. — Heinrich von Kleist
The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine,… — J. G. Ballard
Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover… — Patrick Henry
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he… — James Russell Lowell
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off… — Jacqueline Cochran
Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I… — Hanna Reitsch
As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries… — Rusty Schweickart
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up on the mountain… — Richard Bach
It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine… — Richard Bach
I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can… — Gene Wolfe
Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day. I've come to… — Kris Kristofferson
I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is… — Janis Ian
What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was… — Pete Townshend
Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe… — Loretta Lynn
Some of the songs come so fully, it's like they are pre-packaged. There have been a couple that came in the middle of the night.… — John Prine
I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like… — John Prine
Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be… — James Madison
Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld… — Robert Burns

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