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“On the August night in 1933 when General Gerardo Machado, then president of Cuba, flew out of Havana into exile, he took with him five revolvers, seven bags of gold, and five friends, still in their pajamas.”

Stills Night President Five Gold Seven Bags Exile Cuba Flew August Pajamas Revolver Havana Five Friends

Author:Joan Didion

“The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and so on began to appear physically.”

Way Home Pain Night Left Sides Stress My Way Flew Back Home Paralyzed Rwanda Nairobi Way Back Home

Author:Roméo Dallaire

“It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on our honeymoon. I hit .397 and led the Mexican League with 20 home runs and was named the MVP of the league. It's when I realized I could compete with anyone at any level.”

Home Running Levels Cities Married I Realized League Mexico Mexican Flew Home Run Honeymoon Mvp Mexico City

Author:Monte Irvin

“I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.”

Want Needs Firsts Parent Generations Percent Scientist Planes Atmosphere Fuel Efficient Airplane Engineers Mars Flew Scientists And Engineers

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.”

“John Kerry reportedly flew in his private hairdresser before his "Meet the Press" interview for a total cost of $1,000. That's $1,000 for a haircut, which sounds like a lot, but have you seen the size of Kerry's head.”

Sound Cost Presses Size Interviews Flew Haircuts John Kerry Hairdresser

Author:Jay Leno

“Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the roots of orchids, jaguars walked the river's edge; around them eight hundred species of trees stood, more than are native to all of North America; and a thousand species of butterflies, 6 percent of the entire world fauna, waited for the dawn.”

World America Tree Thousand Percent Hundred Rivers Roots Species Fruit Edges Eight Dawn Native Butterfly Crowns Bats Palms Flew Spears North America Biodiversity Orchids Ambush Vipers Jaguars

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth.”

Ifs I Can Matter Earth No Matter What Aliens Shelves Galaxy Flew Because I Can Spaceships Ashtrays

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.”

Ifs Names My Own Dangerous Flew Aeroplanes Himalayas

Author:Scilla Elworthy

“A friend and I flew south with our children. During the week we spent together I took off my shoes, let down my hair, took apart my psyche, cleaned the pieces, and put them together again in much improved condition. I feel like a car that's just had a tune-up. Only another woman could have acted as the mechanic.”

Feels Children Together Women Pieces Week Conditions Car Hair Our Children South Shoes Tunes Mechanic Flew Together Again Let Down Another Woman Tune Up

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.”

Firsts America Past Remember Squares Avoiding Flew Spit Unattractive Times Square

Author:John Gielgud

“Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music up there?... It's the music a man's spirit sings to his heart, when the earth's far away and there isn't any more fear. It's the high, fine, beautiful sound of an earth-bound creature who grew wings and flew up high and looked straight into the face of the future. And caught, just for an instant, the unbelievable vision of a free man in a free world.”

“I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.”

Feels Firsts School Joy Time High School First Time Graduates Solo Flew Sixteenth Birthday

Author:Dalton Trumbo

“While watching the New Orleans Saints (on television), I got angry and punched my bed, and then my remote control flew up and hit me in the head. My girlfriend didn't stop laughing for an hour.”

Hours Laughing Television Bed Angry Saint Girlfriend New Orleans Flew My Girlfriend Remote Control Flew Up

Author:Shane West

“I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character. With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie.”

Stills Character New York Daughter My Daughter Assault Zombie Airports Flew Zombieland

Author:Woody Harrelson

“I flew this past weekend. I went through airport security and said to the guy, 'Is everything okay?' He said, 'You might want to have that mole on your ass checked out.' That seems a little personal to me.”

Want Littles Said Seems Might Past Guy Security Okay Ass Weekend Airports Flew Moles Airport Security

Author:Jay Leno

“When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.”

Moments Born Four Blood Cry Grew Birth Walking Moon Devil Ears Wings Fishes Forests Flew Monstrous Parody Figs

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In response to the escalating violence in Iraq, President Bush is delaying the return home of 25,000 troops and will actually add reinforcements to the south. Then in a symbolic gesture he pulled down the mission accomplished banner, put on a flight suit, walked backwards to a jet fighter and flew it in reverse off an aircraft carrier.”

“One time I dropped a fly ball in Milwaukee and, after the game, the writers asked me what happened. I told them, 'Well, I was looking up and a UFO flew right across. It was weird. I never saw anything like that in my life.' Man, I was only joking and they wrote it up and put it in the paper.”

Men Wells Games Saws Happened Paper Balls One Time Ufo Flew Milwaukee

Author:Jesse Barfield

“The day General Soleimani flew back from Moscow to Iran was the day we believed that Russia used cyber warfare against the joint chiefs. We need a new commander in chief that will stand up to our enemies.”

Needs Used Enemy Russia Chiefs Iran Warfare Joints Commanders Flew Moscow Cyber Commander In Chief Cyber Warfare

Author:Ted Cruz

“I'm the son of a pastor and evangelist and I've described many times how my father, when I was a child, was an alcoholic. He was not a Christian. And my father left my mother and left me when I was just three years old. And someone invited him to Clay Road Baptist Church. And he gave his heart to Jesus and it turned him around. And he got on a plane and he flew back to my mother and me.”

Years Heart Children Christian Mother Three Father Jesus Left Church Son Planes Three Years Pastor Invited Clay Alcoholics Flew Baptists Evangelists Three Year Olds

Author:Ted Cruz

“I came to admire this machine which could lift virtually any load strapped to its back and carry it anywhere in any weather, safely and dependably. The C-47 groaned, it protested, it rattled, it leaked oil, it ran hot, it ran cold, it ran rough, it staggered along on hot days and scared you half to death, its wings flexed and twisted in a horrifying manner, it sank back to earth with a great sigh of relief - but it flew and it flew and it flew.”

Earth Half Cold Machines Hot Wings Scared Oil Admire Weather Flight Lifts Ran Relief Aviation Rough Load Sigh Twisted Flew Hot Days Sigh Of Relief

Author:Len Morgan

“I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.”

Felt Shots Flight Aviation Combat Vietnam Flew

Author:Dick Rutan

“In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying.”

Ifs Instruments Flying Flew Thunderstorm

Author:Arnold Palmer

“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.”

Ifs Want Would Be Crazy Missions Sane Flew Being Crazy Catch 22 Important

Author:Joseph Heller

“I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right time to have the moment of a lifetime. My mother was born - her name was Marianne Moon. And she was born in 1903, the year that the Wright Brothers first flew.”

People Years Firsts Moments Mother Opportunity Names Given Born Brother Moon Lifetime Fortunate Right Time Right Place Flew Wright Brothers

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I might have tried bungee jumping, until I saw that video of that guy whose cord came untied. He didn't know it 'till he hit the ground. Oh, he flew off that tower, hollering at his buddies. "Whoo, check me out, dudes! Oh, that ground is coming up..." WHAM! And what do you say, if you're the operator of that ride, to the next guy in line? "All right dude, you're up."”

Ifs Knows Humor Might Funny Guy Next Lines Saws Checks Video Towers Jumping Buddy Flew That Guy Cords Operators Bungee Jumping Bungee

Author:Bill Engvall

“I took my father on a coach trip last summer.We were halfway there when the driver lost control of the coach, it flew down a hill around a bend and crashed through a brick wall. I wasn't hurt but luckily my father had the presence of mind to kick my head in.”

Mind Humor Funny Lasts Father Lost Hurt Wall Summer Coaches Hills Kicks Drivers Bricks Halfway Flew Brick Wall Last Summer Presence Of Mind Halfway There

Author:Chic Murray

“Last time you bring me pie, I cut into it, with my tiny pie cutter, and millions of birds flew out hitting me in the eyes and the temples... it was a trick pie!”

Humor Eye Funny Lasts Millions Cutting Bird Tiny Tricks Temples Hitting Pie Last Time Flew Cutters

Author:Noel Fielding

“The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been.”

Giving Country Eye Past Influence Wind Bird Our Country Peculiar Flew Referring

Book:Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939

“Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions - the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base.”

Action Courses Individual Military Terrible Responsible Ships Bombs Pilots Pearls Terrible Things Harbors Flew

Author:Nicholson Baker

“Imagine what I could have done in ten years. I could have learned to speak Japanese. I could have played every RPG video game ever created, and if I spoke Japanese I could have played the foreign ones too! Man, I could have built a spaceship in my backyard and flew it to the moon and back, if I wanted.”

Ifs Men Years Done Wanted Games Speak Imagine Moon Ten Built Video Spokes Flew Backyards Spaceships The Moon And Back Rpgs

Author:Kevin James

“The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.”

Firsts Space Break Alive Air First Time Fullness Flew

Book:Birdy

Source: Birdy

“Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.”

Peace Moon Filled Horns Flew Archer Thrice

Book:The Poems of Edward Young

Source: The Poems of Edward Young

“Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.”

Source: Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind

“When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental house. There were like five boys in there, all my age, looked after by this woman who was 22 or 23. And it was like "Empire of the Sun" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-type of arrangement where you've got this young boy overcoming and becoming heroic in the face of this awful place.”

“I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.”

Made Book Play Months Six Paid Six Months Nests Flew Cuckoos One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Author:Kirk Douglas

“The dissonance that I felt daily flew in the face of what Silicon Valley says about itself: that it is a meritocracy, that it values intelligence and creativity, that everyone has a fair shot if they just work hard enough. This was true only if you were technical, and even that may not always be enough: in the age of the social network, who you know and who your friends were was becoming increasingly important.”

Source: The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network

“I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.”

People Felt Environment California Flew Seattle Iowa

Author:Li Ang

“I'm going to ask the three executives here to raise their hand if they flew here commercial. Let the record show no hands went up. Second, I'm going to ask you to raise your hand if you're planning to sell your jet in place now and fly back commercial. Let the record show no hands went up.”

Ifs Shows Hands Three Asks Records Raises Sells Planning Executives Flew Jet

Author:Brad Sherman

“U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor kinves, and pepper spray on fourteen commerical flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House.”

“I flew over to Birmingham and did half a dozen scenes or so as a pastor in the film. I had a great time. I look forward to seeing the final version. I also am good friends with the Erwin Brothers who are co-directing and producing the film with Kevin. They also helped with Courageous. It's kind of a small little family in this arena and we love helping each other out.”

Looks Kind Littles Helping Film Half Seeing Brother Scene Finals Versions Courageous Dozen Good Friend Pastor Arena Flew Great Times Kevin Helping Each Other Birmingham Had A Great Time

Author:Alex Kendrick

“As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.”

I Can Two Home Space Needed Ocean Flew Personal Experiences Logistics

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.”

Needs Done Missions Pilots Flew Sloth Seventeen

Book:If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat

Source: If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat

“Nineteen people flew into the towers. It seems hard for me to imagine that we could go to war enough to make the world safe enough that nineteen people wouldn't want to do harm to us. So it seems like we have to rethink a strategy that is less military-based.”

People World Want War Hard Enough Seems Imagine Military Safe Strategy Harm Imagine That Towers Flew Nineteen

Author:Jon Stewart

“I called my pilot 2 weeks before I flew and asked him, I don't want to get sick, what should I eat? He said, Peanut Butter. I said, If I eat peanut butter then I won't get sick? He said, no, but it tastes the same comin' up as it does goin' down.”

Ifs Want Should Doe Said Week Taste Sick Pilots Should I Flew Peanuts Peanut Butter

Author:Bill Engvall

“When I was seven, I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with my mom. When Jack Nicholson was strapped to the table getting electroshock treatment, my mom burst into tears. She said it reminded her of her life, and I was stunned, because I didn't know my mom had been nominated for an Oscar.”

Knows Said Tears Mom Tables Seven My Mom Treatment Oscars Nests Flew Stunned Cuckoos Nicholson One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Author:Christopher Titus

“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 to find if that went down in the ocean. That'll be nice, when you're trying to get out and a real whale's humping your window.”

Ifs World Trying Real Easy Nice Sea Ocean Window Yeah Planes Being Nice Flew Airline Whales Southwest Airlines

Author:Robert Schimmel

“Whatever the political injustices are that created an environment that brought this about, it was not Americans who flew those planes into those buildings. And we should remember that. The crimes against humanity were perpetrated by people who were Arab Muslims.”

People Should Remember Political Humanity Environment Crime Building Injustice Planes Flew Crimes Against Humanity

Author:Robert Fisk

“My show 'The Big House' was picked up; they flew me to New York. I'm about to step on stage to announce 's 'The Big House.' And a hand grabs my shoulder, 'Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.' It's a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can't.”

Shows Hands Bigs Faces House Steps Stage New York Serious Decided Shoulders Flew Kevin Smack Big Houses

Author:Kevin Hart

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