Quotes with heavier-than-air

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  • Glenda Jackson I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.
    Glenda Jackson
    British actress and politician (1936 - 2023)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Orson Welles I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Stephen Hawking I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
    Interview ABC News 7 June 2010
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Anthony Hopkins I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.
    Anthony Hopkins
    Welsh and American actor (1937 - )
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  • Andy Hertzfeld I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Edward Gibbon I was never less alone than when by myself.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Margaret Mitchell I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bill Hicks I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great. He goes, What? I'm 28.
    Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Francis Bacon I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Kin Hubbard I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Nicholas Breton I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of fiends, and empty purse.
    Nicholas Breton
    English poet and novelist (1545 - 1626)
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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Aaron McGruder I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
    The Boondocks
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Edith Wharton I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Charlotte Brontë I would always rather be happy than dignified.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Elisabeth Gaskell I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!
    Elisabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Luigi Pirandello I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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