Chuck Yeager quote: "That room is really well laid out, ... It was sort of emotional to go through the display. You see a lot of things that bring back a lot of memories."

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, ...
CHUCK YEAGER

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my ...
CHUCK YEAGER

In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.
CHUCK YEAGER

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the ...
CHUCK YEAGER

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thi...
CHUCK YEAGER

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the nece...
CHUCK YEAGER

I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British,...
CHUCK YEAGER

Ultimately, the Reaction Motors turbo pump became stalled in development, so another 4-chamber React...
CHUCK YEAGER

The secret to my success was that somehow I always managed to live to fly another day.
CHUCK YEAGER

We have a lot of events coming up, such as Tennessee Week for the Animals in October. We work closel...
CHUCK YEAGER

This is a first-time event, and we're looking forward to it.
CHUCK YEAGER

I'll stick with Doc Bear. He knows what he's doing.
CHUCK YEAGER

Never wait for trouble.
CHUCK YEAGER

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
CHUCK YEAGER

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.
CHUCK YEAGER

He was in very bad weather and his airplane broke up.
CHUCK YEAGER

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.
CHUCK YEAGER

Rocket propulsion was explored -- specifically, a turbo-pump-equipped rocket made by Reaction Motors...
CHUCK YEAGER

[When it started,] I had about 20,000 pilots donate their aircraft and fuel so we could fly 1 millio...
CHUCK YEAGER

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the s...
CHUCK YEAGER

It's a payoff to John Glenn for his support of (President) Clinton and also the NASA budget. NASA ne...
CHUCK YEAGER

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that on...
CHUCK YEAGER

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. ...
CHUCK YEAGER

Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that...
CHUCK YEAGER

He had a program called Free Spirit, ... He split $1 million four ways between people who didn't con...
CHUCK YEAGER

When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.
CHUCK YEAGER

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that on...
CHUCK YEAGER

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.
CHUCK YEAGER

It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the o...
CHUCK YEAGER

The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcom...
CHUCK YEAGER

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
CHUCK YEAGER

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.
CHUCK YEAGER

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in t...
CHUCK YEAGER

I don?t think it takes away from the luster of the conference. It?s great when you have a ranked tea...
TOM YEAGER

She's a good kid. She is working her tail off and coming to a varsity team, a team that's struggling...
TINA YEAGER

These aren't hollow, computer-generated numbers. They're there. They're real, I think. This could be...
TOM YEAGER

I think maybe they'll accept mid-major teams who have done everything they can do, to the best of th...
TOM YEAGER

You can't buy chemistry. You can't draw it up or chart it.
TOM YEAGER

We didn't start hitting until about the fourth inning.
BLAKE YEAGER

I was anxious to get back out here.
BLAKE YEAGER

I'm just glad to be back out here.
BLAKE YEAGER

Last year we started off pretty bad and got better. If we hang tough for a while, I think we can do ...
BLAKE YEAGER

The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, an...
MARKESA YEAGER

It's frustrating for everyone, they've gotten their hopes up every day thinking they're going to spe...
CAECY YEAGER

Kristin's been playing consistently all year. She's 5-foot-7 and she plays 6-foot tall.
MARK YEAGER

I sure hope we're peaking at the right time. We've got to come out Friday and play as well as we did...
MARK YEAGER

Amber is a huge asset as far as leadership and talking. She's got the most positive attitude of any ...
TINA YEAGER

Do you wish to be accepted for who you are? Do you wish to be loved without condition? Do you wish f...
AARON LEE YEAGER

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.
CHUCK CLOSE

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.
CHUCK BERRY

I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad peop...
CHUCK LORRE

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' '...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't f...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens jus...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their w...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - pai...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scare...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a...
CHUCK HAGEL

The final line in the Second Amendment says, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shal...
CHUCK NORRIS

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
CHUCK JONES

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need ...
CHUCK D

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all fall...
CHUCK HAGEL

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, beca...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres.
CHUCK INGLISH

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
CHUCK JONES

What was Bruce Lee like? How did you meet? What was it like to choreograph the fight scene in Rome w...
CHUCK NORRIS

I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, ...
CHUCK KLEIN

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or aware...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure ...
CHUCK NORRIS

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapo...
CHUCK SCHUMER

California club pop chirper Dev's debut is as stark as it is sweet. This is owed partly to the c...
CHUCK EDDY

Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance...
CHUCK TODD

I'm a can-do conservative, and I just love the job, and I think I'm going to get re-elected.
CHUCK FLEISCHMANN

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the othe...
CHUCK D

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
CHUCK NORRIS

Every day, we are bombarded with a multitude of toxins in the environment. We know that the negative...
CHUCK NORRIS

I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt ...
CHUCK FEENEY

My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was n...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable....
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basi...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book wr...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like b...
CHUCK BARRIS

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

We can't deal with the flood in the orchards until we cap the floodwaters coming into them. And ...
CHUCK NORRIS

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as ess...
CHUCK D

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mista...
CHUCK SCHUMER

Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a...
CHUCK MANGIONE

You decide your own level of involvement.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolis...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Everyone knows that the Internet is changing our lives, mostly because someone in the media has utte...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in a...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run f...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of yo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would al...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Beca...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

A menos que todo empeore, nada puede mejorar.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, b...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant th...
CHUCK DALY

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.
CHUCK KNOX

Playing safe is only playing.
CHUCK OLSON

Practice without improvement is meaningless.
CHUCK KNOX

It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.
CHUCK HILLIS

Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart.
CHUCK D

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stair...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and ...
CHUCK COLSON

Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and bi...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as being a man means looking the w...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teet...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Only after disaster can we be ressurected.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumpti...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sud...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes availa...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Maybe we should always assume the worst.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive....
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. An...
CHUCK TANNER

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth...
CHUCK SIGARS

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.
CHUCK SIGARS

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my mil...
CHUCK NORRIS

I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home jo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about...
CHUCK BERRY

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our po...
CHUCK HAGEL

A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it...
CHUCK CLOSE

Commonly, athletes will bolster their dietary intake with everyday vitamins such as magnesium and ir...
CHUCK NORRIS

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew...
CHUCK BERRY

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
CHUCK CLOSE

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, ...
CHUCK JONES

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everyth...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

That room is really well laid out, ... It was sort of emotional to go through the display. You see a lot of things that bring back a lot of memories.

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That room is really well laid out, ... It was sort of emotional to go through the display. You see a lot of things that bring back a lot of memories.

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