Airplane Quotes

• If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

  Joseph Stalin

  Peace, Government, Order

  "J. V. Stalin Works" Volume 2, by Joseph Stalin, Foreign Languages Publishing House, (pp. 279-94), 1953.

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• We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

  Pete Coors

  Sex, Gay, Law

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• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  Wally Schirra

  Dad, Hands, Canada

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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, United States, Alternatives

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• Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

  Juan Williams

  Npr, Yesterday, People

  "JUAN WILLIAMS: I Was Fired for Telling the Truth" By Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2010.

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• How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it.

  George Murphy

  Law, Practice, Dancing

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• My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

  John L. Phillips

  Dad, War, Inspiration

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

  Burt Reynolds

  Movie, Kind, Prison

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

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• I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

  Douglass North

  1960s, My Own, Aeroplanes

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• The people who went on that airplane were unexceptional.

  Paul Greengrass

  People, Aeroplanes

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• To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

  Ted Turner

  Happiness, Phones, Cells

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• In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

  Beck

  Play, Japan, Speech

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• Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

  Richard Leakey

  Years, Twelve, Legs

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• Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

  Method Man

  Men, Class, Firsts

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• We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games.

  Steve Yzerman

  Games, Two, Tables

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• We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.

  Eva Herzigova

  Travel, Buying, Tickets

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• The airplane has had a big impact on my life.

  Jim Courier

  Impact, Bigs, Aeroplanes

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• Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.

  Chuck Yeager

  Believe, Wings, Pilots

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• So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

  Henry Rollins

  Real, Home, Sleep

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• The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality.

  Louis Bleriot

  Beautiful, Dream, Heart

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• The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

  Mark Russell

  Inspirational, Hilarious, Funny Life

  "Frequent Flyer Humor and One-Upmanship". Book by George W. Stewart, Dog Ear Publishing, p. 12, 2011.

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• Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

  Pappy Boyington

  Funny, Humorous, Boredom

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• The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

  Harry Reasoner

  Events, Different, Want

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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

  Today, Size, Aviation

  "Ross Perot Speaks Out".

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• Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

  Alan Shepard

  Morning, Airports, Teens

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