quotes about Airmen

“In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.”

Source : Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.10, Penguin

“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”

“Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.”

“I've observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they've done as an act of service than out of the things they do for themselves.”

“Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we have melody and we have the song before, so if the keyboard sound fits very well, it takes its artistic direction. We play the machines and the machines play us.”

“We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though: if we throw it away, it’s gone.”

“When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader and 9 percent for George Bush. In the general electorate, the vote was split at 48 percent for Gore and Bush, and 3 percent for Nader.”

“Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.”

Source : "Alan Cumming on Macbeth: 'It’s nuts, what we’re doing. Nuts!’" by Jasper Rees, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 6, 2012.

“We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.”

“By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.”