Ron McKeown quotes

“Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass!”
-- Ron McKeown

#Lessons Quotes #Pilots Quotes #Slides Quotes

“The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?”

Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.

“It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of ***** which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.”

Source : Alastair Reynolds (2002). “Revelation Space”, p.406, Penguin

“I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.”

“There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members...This language at the present day would appear as wild as that great part of what we now hear from the same quarter will be thought, when we shall have received further lessons from that best oracle of wisdom, experience.”

“Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?" "I was imagining it was Evor." "Strange that they do not resemble each other." "I have a good imagination." "Ah, in that case, I do not suppose you are imagining I'm Brad Pitt?”

“Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.”

“The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.”

“One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.”

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

“No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.”

“Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.”