Aeroplanes Quotes - Page 6

• We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

  Bill Maher

  Airplane, Coward, Want

  "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher, www.imdb.com. 1993-2002.

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• We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.

  Ray Manzarek

  Airplane, Grace, Hug

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• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  Abraham Maslow

  Determination, Life And Love, Ocean

  "A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective". Book by Eric Shiraev (p. 431),

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• My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Admiration, Alcoholics Anonymous, Phenomenon

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.

  Reba McEntire

  Mad, Reason, Crash

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.

  Reba McEntire

  Taken, Two, Flying

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Airplane, Aphorism

  1937 The Gift, ch.1.

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• Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Strong, Quality

  "Mixed Opinions and Maxims" by Friedrich Nietzsche, aphorism 370, "The Danger in Admiration", 1879.

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• I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.

  Gary Numan

  Children, Home, School

  "Gary Numan: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

  John Adams

  Love, Children, Hero

  John Adams, Margaret A. Hogan (2007). “My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Science, Technology

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Like You, Shots, Planes

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• Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

  Minna Antrim

  Rivers, Flow, Admiration

  "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions" by Minna Antrim, (p. 1061), 1901.

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• Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Perception, Kingdoms, Kind

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.194, Penguin

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• Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Life Changing, Aging

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• My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

  Graham Greene

  Typewriters, Hands, Two

  International Herald Tribune, October 07, 1977.

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• But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

  Reed Hastings

  Entrepreneur, Stupidity, Bird

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• Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

  William Hazlitt

  Idols, May, Admiration

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1464, Delphi Classics

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• Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Airplane, People, Rooms

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• Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Jesus, Character, Sublime

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• A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Elephants, Camels, Jet Planes

  "A Hero for Our Time". Book by Ralph G Martin, 1983.

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• Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

  Joseph Addison

  Passion, Admiration And Respect, Decay

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1778). “The Spectator”, p.26

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• I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

  Jean Kerr

  Inspirational, Travel, Airplane

  JEAN KERR (1960). “THE SNAKE HAS ALL THE LINES”

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• At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

  John Astin

  Ravens, People, Admiration

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

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• On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.

  Michael Stipe

  Movie, Oxygen, Cry

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