Airline Quotes - Page 11

• Be Luke Skywalker, not Darth Vader. Ultimately love is stronger than evil.

  Don Burr

  Love Is, Evil, Stronger

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• I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never had a really serious venereal disease.

  Herb Kelleher

  Couple, Vomiting, Disease

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• Bankruptcy as a solution in kind of un-American.

  Thomas W. Horton

  Aviation, Kind, Bankruptcy

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• The Wright Amendment is a pain in the ass, but not every pain in the ass is a constitutional infringement.

  Herb Kelleher

  Pain, Aviation, Ass

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• Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"

  Michael O'Leary

  Connections, Alliances, Aviation

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• This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.

  Juan Trippe

  Important, Development, Earth

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• Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?

  Gordon Bethune

  Airplane, Self Motivation, Want

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• If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it.

  Elton Joe Kendall

  Looks, Logos, Aviation

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• If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.

  Robert Crandall

  Believe, World, Pilots

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• We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done.

  Joe Sutter

  Airplane, Done, Fields

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• As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Names, Giving, Aviation

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• There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.

  Gordon Bethune

  Watches, Aviation, Complexes

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• You've got to treat people as equals, and make them feel like it's their company. I don't know if I've had any impact or helped persuade Frank [to sell Eastern]. But, I can tell you, there were many discussions on the subject.

  Michael Milken

  Impact, People, Aviation

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• Frank is capable of any kind of behavior to win.

  Don Burr

  Winning, Aviation, Kind

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• It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airline Business, Size, Aviation

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• I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Knives, Temptation, Dozen

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• I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Carbon Footprint, Trying, Green

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

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• I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

  Gary Numan

  Baby, Cousin, Brother

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

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• I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute.

  Lewis Black

  Insane, Mergers, Stuff

  Interview with Chris Mincher, tv.avclub.com. May 20, 2008.

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• Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.

  Andy Rooney

  Years, Next Year, Seven Days

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• When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

  Jill Abramson

  Technology, Phones, Use

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• A personal note to the Founding Fathers: We're sorry. We blew it. You made it possible for us to live free and we blew it. We've given up nearly every personal liberty in the name of a false sense of security sold to the masses by the same type of maniacal government about which you warned us and against which you fought so bravely. We now have to ask permission to take a leak on an airline flight. We never deserved you.

  Philip D. Murphy

  Sorry, Father, Government

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• Like on the airlines, they say they want to 'pre-board'. Well, what the hell is 'pre board'? What does that mean? To get on before you get on?

  George Carlin

  Mean, Want, Doe

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• Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

  George Monbiot

  Science, Office, Energy

  "I'm all for putting more vehicles on our roads. As long as they're coaches" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2006.

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• The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

  Henry Tillman

  Travel, Fun, Memorable

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