Aeroplanes Quotes - Page 7

• You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something; it's the aeroplane you've hit . . . normally it was more of a game if you like, you were outwitting and shooting down another aircraft, you were simply hitting metal.

  Peter Malam Brothers

  Thinking, Games, Bail

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• And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be said to be spoiled either by his successes or by the generous congratulations of his comrades. If he were capable of being spoiled he would not have had the character to have won continuous victories, for the smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Self-distrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Congratulations, Character, Fighting

  Eddie Rickenbacker (2012). “Fighting the Flying Circus”, p.48, Tales End Press

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• For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.

  Maurice Ravel

  Men, Thinking, Symbolism

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• I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension is produced by the skillful use of the force of the wind, and the steering, in any direction, is the result of skillful manoeuvres; so that by a moderate wind a man can, with an aeroplane, un- provided with any motor whatever, rise up into the air and direct himself at will, even against the wind itself.

  Louis Pierre Mouillard

  Men, Air, Eagles

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• The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Fighting, Vanity, Quality

  Eddie Rickenbacker (2012). “Fighting the Flying Circus”, p.48, Tales End Press

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• There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights feeling their way across the sky like antennae, and the earth shaking snort of the bombs and the whimper of shrapnel pieces when they come down to patter on the roof.

  John Dos Passos

  Song, Gun, Sky

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although the view out (in flight) is better than you might expect; the profuseion of canopy struts is not particularly a problem. In addition to the above the small cockpit makes you feel more a part of the aeroplane.

  Mark Ashley Hanna

  Views, Might, Flight

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• There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.

  Harriet Quimby

  Occupation, Reason Why, Should

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• Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Coffee, Airplane, Smell

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• We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.

  Johannes Stark

  Moving, Axes, Ions

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• I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

  George Pataki

  New York, Believe, Long

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• It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

  John Masefield

  Pistols, Gangsters, Ought

  John Masefield (2011). “The Box of Delights”, p.20, Egmont UK

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• I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

  Major Owens

  People, Lines, Admiration

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• It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Years, Two, Flying

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• My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That's a nice luxury and he is very supportive

  Jeri Ryan

  Jobs, Husband, Nice

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• If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

  Tommy Chong

  Home, Planes, Whole

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• I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.

  Bridget Hall

  Magazines, Skydiving, Planes

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• I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

  Rick Springfield

  Spiritual, Planes, Connected

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• We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

  Albert Finney

  People, Groups, Alabama

  Interview with Paul Fischer, Dark Horizons, December 2, 2003.

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• I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

  Matthew Sweet

  Names, Genius, Planes

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• Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.

  James Darren

  Watches, Rats, Nancy

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• My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

  Ted Olson

  Taken, Airplane, Two

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• And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Cutting, Air, May

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• I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

  Max Beckmann

  Thinking, Space, Division

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• Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian.

  David Zucker

  Love, Airplane, Thinking

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

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