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I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog. -- Harold Feinstein
In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war. -- Mark Burnett
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. -- William Stafford
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump. -- Zora Neale Hurston
All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. -- Margaret Mead
I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next. -- Rhona Mitra
Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle. -- John Ridley
My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there's air, water in there. I was freaking out. -- Ryan Lochte
Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it. -- Henry Mintzberg
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down. -- Robin Wasserman
When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines. -- Nancy Gibbs
To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure. -- Valentina Tereshkova
Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring. -- Steve Antin
The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency. -- Sally Ride
I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open. -- Cathy Rigby
I am classified as a disabled veteran. The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty... from parachute jumping to combat to gunshot wounds, all that stuff. -- Richard Carmona
When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public. -- Francis Ford Coppola
But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before? -- Eugene Levy
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly. -- Cory Lidle
I was always very active as a kid. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open. -- Cathy Rigby
I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom. -- Yves Rossy
Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both. -- Leroy Chiao
I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise. -- Elizabeth Emken
Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out. -- David Bailey
I've been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that. -- Ice Cube
My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for the Money' and The Kinks' 'Village Green Preservation Society' - these records that have a story - even if it's not a literal story - because of how they're sequenced and flow. It's like a novel with sound. -- Ty Segall
Love is like skydiving without a parachute. -- Lois Greiman
My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time. -- Andrea Gibson
I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army]. -- Scott Raab
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. -- Frank Zappa
If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver. -- Dan Poynter
The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open. -- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Your mind is just like a parachute ! if you don't open it, it won't work ! -- Tom Evans
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. -- George Bernard Shaw
I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night. -- Charles Lindbergh
Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing. -- Robert G. Allen
War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk. -- Anthony Doerr
Multiple Inheritance is like a parachute. You don't often need it, but when you do, you really need it. -- Grady Booch
When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I always keep my mind open. For me, a mind has to work like like a parachute, works only if it's open. -- Rickson Gracie
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it. -- C. S. Lewis
I said [to my mom], "I want to go to the parachute regiment." She said, "Whew, that's tough. But okay, I understand." -- Scott Raab
The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground. -- Chogyam Trungpa
In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not. -- Claudio Ranieri
I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone. -- Jim Butcher
As soon as I jumped out of the airplane, I realized I had forgotten my parachute. Thank God we were still on the runway. -- Demetri Martin
I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing. -- Warren Buffett
I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off. -- Robert Redford
I need to take loving to the extreme, as if it were a sport requiring a helmet and parachute. I wonder if @redbull would sponsor me. -- Jarod Kintz
Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again. -- Scott Adams
If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss. -- Christian Morgenstern
If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming. -- Jack Handey
If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again. -- Jacques Plante
The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty "¦ from parachute jumping to combat to gunshot wounds, all that stuff, -- Richard Carmona
Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back. -- Eric Allin Cornell
If you think of the Apollo capsule coming into Earth with a parachute, the Mars atmosphere is just so thin, you've got to find some way of slowing yourself down really rapidly. -- Ellen Stofan
What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay. -- Ellen DeGeneres
The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts. -- David Simon
Each of us as he receives his private trouncings at the hands of fate is kept in good heart by hearing of the moth in his brother's parachute and the scorpion in his neighbor's underwear. -- N. F. Simpson

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