#plane

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#between #earlier #i #paintings #picture

I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet. ↗

— Mark Roberts

#been #diana #freelance #front #funeral

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#clearly #earth #how #inappropriate #ocean

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash. ↗

— Brenda Lee

#awful #could #crash #everything #except

They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact. ↗

— Barney Ross

#coming #get #got #her #intact

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. ↗

— Jack London

#every #glow #i #magnificent #me

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#another #any #close #enough #flowers

Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#our #our planet #planet #result #seem

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#circumstances #detected #dim #effect #equipment

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#despise #dropped #gave #i #into