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“I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.”

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Joan Collins

Joan Collins, born on May 23, 1933, is a renowned British actress. She is best known for her role in the television series 'Dynasty' and has appeared in numerous films and television shows. Collins is celebrated for her unique acting style and fashion sense. more

“How many more years I shall be able to work on the problem I do not know; I hope, as long as I live. There can be no thought of finishing, for 'aiming at the stars' both literally and figuratively, is a problem to occupy generations, so that no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.”

Knows Years Long Matter Problem Able Stars Progress Generations Flight Aviation Thrill Finishing

Author:Robert H. Goddard

“I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although that end is what we have all ostensibly been striving to attain.”

Thinking Mean Ends Sides Loses Common Accepting Strive Flying Pity Flight Aviation Pilots Transport Great Aviation Pilots And Flying

Book:Sky Roads of the World

Source: Sky Roads of the World

“Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.”

Giving Religious Sea Mankind Add Woods Mood Flight Desert Aviation Cosmic Nourishment

Author:Christian Morgenstern

“These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where?”

“It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle.”

Looks Miracle Flight Look Up Aviation Unreasonable Concorde

Author:Brian Trubshaw

“And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic.”

Ifs World Giving Stills Eye Vision Seeing Magic Glasses Wave Flying Flight Aviation Peers Buckets

Book:NORTH TO THE ORIENT

Source: NORTH TO THE ORIENT

“As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.”

“The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.”

Men Dream Magic Mankind Approach Horse Instruments Ancient Flying Flight Fulfillment Aviation Carpet Helicopters Versatile

Author:Igor Sikorsky

“Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.”

Men Spirit Can Do Flying Flight Description Aviation Pilots Mechanic Great Aviation

Book:With No Apologies

Source: With No Apologies

“'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.”

Way May Months Spring

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

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