Ernst Udet quotes

“. . . It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought from my brain with the swipe of a paw. I sit there, flying on, and continue to stare, as though mesmerised, at the Cauldron on my left.”
-- Ernst Udet

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“To be a great pilot you have to make a pact with the devil, but don't let him swallow you up.”
-- Ernst Udet

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“Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.”

Source : "Best Story; Narrate Or Die" by A.S. Byatt, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.

“With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.”

“In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of a brave anarchist. The Arabian epoch-the Arabs look down on the Turks as they do on dogs-was the most cultured, the most intellectual and in every way best and happiest epoch in Spanish history. It was followed by the period of the persecutions with its unceasing atrocities.”

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.”

“I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts”

“Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.”

Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.

“What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.”

“All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.”

“We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.11, Anchor