Aeroplanes Quotes

• The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, Airplane, Science

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• I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it. It's not how close can you get to the ground, but how precise can you fly the airplane. If you feel so careless with you life that you want to be the world's lowest flying aviator you might do it for a while. But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close.

  Bob Hoover

  Inspirational, Life, Airplane

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• Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Travel, Wings

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• Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birthday, Age, Dams

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.62, Routledge

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• Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

  George Sand

  Admiration, Stranger, Familiarity

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• I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.

  Martin Scorsese

  Ideas, Looks, May

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• The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

  Alan Shepard

  Feet, Four, Firsts

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• The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

  Alan Shepard

  Attitude, Airplane, Pilots

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• Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

  Tony Snow

  Confusion, Joy, Lust

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• We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

  Mitt Romney

  Volunteer, Giving, Admiration And Respect

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• My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

  Sally Ride

  Airplane, Flight, Physics

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• When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

  Alan Rickman

  Two, England, Inches

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• I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Done, Admiration, Deals

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

  Jackson Pollock

  Airplane, Mean, Artist

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Hope, Respect, Students

  William Lyon Phelps (1912). “Teaching in School and College”

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• If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA to build one.

  Ross Perot

  Airplane, Today, Size

  "Ross Perot Speaks Out".

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• For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

  Robert B. Parker

  Father, Admiration, Grew Up

  Robert B. Parker (2009). “Early Autumn”, p.4, Dell

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• Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Sports, Witty

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• Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

  Casey Stengel

  Funny, Sports, Airplane

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• When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

  Steven Tyler

  Airplane, Thinking, Needs

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• Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The aeroplane will never fly.

  Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane

  Space, Follow Your Dreams, Predictions

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• As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Airplane, United States

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• Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Mean, Stay Calm, Generations

  Baccalaureate address as President of Yale, June 12, 1966.

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• My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

  Burt Reynolds

  Movie, Airplane, Kind

  Burt Reynolds, Jon Winokur (2015). “But Enough About Me: A Memoir”, p.87, Penguin

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