Top 112 Parachute Quotes & Sayings

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Testing a parachute drop of a heavy object is not simple.

Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.

When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books!

My mockingjay pin now lives with Cinna's outfit, but there's the gold locket and the silver parachute with the spile and Peeta's pearl. I knot the pearl into the corner of the parachute, bury it deep in the recesses of the bag, as if it's Peeta's life and no one can take it away as long as I guard it.

As soon as I jumped out of the airplane, I realized I had forgotten my parachute. Thank God we were still on the runway.

I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army].

For sky diving, I was thrilled about coming down in a parachute but didn't think about the weightlessness or free fall that I would experience.

If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

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.

Fighting, for me, is like skydiving without the parachute.

My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there's air, water in there. I was freaking out.

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.

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.

If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

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.

Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.

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.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

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.

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.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.

I'm not a guy who wants to skydive and open my parachute at the last minute. I want to open my parachute right away and know what's coming.

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.

I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

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.

So often, as a reporter, we have to parachute into places. We don't have much time. We have to make sense of the story as fast as we can.

All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.

When MC Hammer came out, I was wearing parachute pants and patent leather shoes and a high top fade with a blonde streak in it like Kwame.

In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

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.

I'm scared of heights, but for my 30th birthday I'm going to try and get someone to kick me out of a plane and do a parachute jump.

People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.

Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.

I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!

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.

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.

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.

If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there's no way around it. When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you're safe, you'll never soar!

I personally feel that parachute files give a more realistic impression of an insect to the fish that views the fly, since the hackles are in the same position as the insect's legs, and when tied with brightly colored hackles, these flies are easier to see on the float. A final advantage is that in rough water, a parachute-hackled dry fly will float longer and better than a conventional one

Love is like skydiving without a parachute.

Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing.

I said [to my mom], "I want to go to the parachute regiment." She said, "Whew, that's tough. But okay, I understand."

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.

The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.

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.

Multiple Inheritance is like a parachute. You don't often need it, but when you do, you really need it.

I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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.

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.

Your mind is just like a parachute ! if you don't open it, it won't work !

I was required to jump from a parachute into a lake and for this I was dangled in the air 100 feet above the ground with the help of a harness. It was scary in the beginning as I had never attempted such a thing before.

Let me parachute out of a plane, land on a stadium, and announce it. I'll do it. I'm always game for something.

I don't particularly want to jump out of an airplane with a parachute if I don't have to. I don't want to go bungee jumping. I like adventure with a real purpose that I can buy into.