Claims Quote by J. Maarten Troost Download Open image “No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.” — J. Maarten Troost ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Claims Small world World
The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat. — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
“In spite of wars and tourism and pictures by satellite, the world is just the same size it ever was. It is awesome to… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
I flew out here on Southwest Airlines. Southwest has a plane that's painted like Shamu the whale from Sea World. Yeah, that'll be easy… — Robert Schimmel Copy Share Image
Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
I feel quite confident there will never be a plane on the face of the Earth with my name on it. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“The longer we spent on Tarawa the more Sylvia and I came to realize that to live on Tarawa is to experience a visceral… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
“When it comes to naming things, vanity and flattery are dull motivations best suited for deciding on a child’s middle name. Much more interesting… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings. — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
“Christopher Hitchens once said that he drinks “because it makes other people less boring.” — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
“for what is life, a good life, but the accumulation of small pleasures?” — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
“It was, to reiterate, to stress, to accentuate the point, to leave no doubt, hot.” — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
“Look for a wave shaped like an A. An A . Hmm. I saw Zs and H's and Vs . I saw the Hindi… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise. — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills. — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
“It is an unfortunate reality for innate idlers that our modern world requires one to hold a job to maintain a sustainable existence. Idling,… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
“Seriously. There were three of them, all roughly in their thirties, and they spent their time traveling the world, putting together documentaries about the… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth. — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Those who do not know what love is likens it to beauty Those who claim to know what love is likens it to ugliness… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
