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Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect. -- Benny Hill
The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles. -- Ken Curtis
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. -- William Stafford
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Minds are like parachutes-not much good unless they are open. -- Harvey Mackay
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. -- James Dewar
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump. -- Zora Neale Hurston
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. -- Frank Zappa
Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow! -- Yuri Gagarin
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes. -- Jim Barksdale
For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes. -- Joaquin Phoenix
Business people get many undeserved prizes - golden parachutes and bonuses even when companies fail. I don't think people should get rewarded for screwing up. -- Mo Ibrahim
I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life. -- Sebastian Junger
Minds, like parachutes, work only when open. -- James Dewar
Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open. -- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth. -- Tahereh Mafi
Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed. -- L.E. Modesitt Jr.
We pulled the seeds out and scattered them on their flossy parachutes, leaving only the leathery brownish yellow tongue, soft as the inside of an elbow. -- Margaret Atwood
When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes. -- Diana Gabaldon
I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts. -- John Zakour

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