Ralph Royce quotes

“Airshow flying is tough, it's even tougher if you do something stupid. Don't do nuthin dumb!”
-- Ralph Royce

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“It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane.”
-- Ralph Royce

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“There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.”

“He isn’t like us Low. You know that right.” I knew what Cage was saying. Marcus was out of my league. He didn’t want me thinking there could ever be anything between me and his roommate. I was low class. Marcus was a rich kid. “I’m not stupid Cage.”

“Anyone who meets you and doesn't want to get to know you and be part of your life is stupid. I saw it when I was just a kid." "No. You thought I was a vampire and you wanted to be my friend so I wouldn't eat you." "Well, that too. But I found out soon enough you weren't a blood sucker and I still licked you.”

“I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.”

“I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.”

“It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.”

“Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?”

“And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity. The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime. We won't know them by their name but their compensation will be to affect the outcome of the planet. Until then, there's a lot of work to be done.”

“Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.”

“Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.”