Airplane Quotes - Page 11

• Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

  Simon Newcomb

  Space, Machines, Impossible

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• No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Flying, Twins, Borrowed

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• What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Stupid

  William Law (1739). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. By William Law, A.M.”, p.120

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• Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Sports, 4th Of July, Men

  "Why Girls Should Create Video Games" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Steps, Staring, Turns

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• I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep, and it's the only time I get to read.

  Kesha

  Book, Sleep, Flying

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

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• I'm a big rings person...and bracelets...and earrings. I love all of it [Laughs]. One time, I was getting off an airplane and I had been traveling for like a month in Europe, and I came from the airplane right to my mom's house who I hadn't seen in awhile, and she looked at me and she goes, "Is it possible to fit any more jewelry on you? Is that actually possible?" And I looked down and, because when I travel I don't like to pack my jewelry so I end up wearing a ton of it, and I had just had everything on me. And I love buying jewelry when I travel - so there was a lot.

  Kate Hudson

  Laughing, House, Jewelry

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

  Temple Grandin

  Grandfather, Pilots, Yaks

  Temple Grandin (2011). “The Way I See It, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's”, p.249, BookBaby

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• You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!

  Jeff Foxworthy

  School, Careers, Lines

  "Have Your Loved Ones Spayed and Neutered". Album by Jeff Foxworthy, 2004.

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• World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.

  Tim Ferriss

  Coffee, Champion, Use

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• People don't talk to me on airplanes.

  Louis C. K.

  People, Talk To Me, Don't Talk To Me

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• I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.

  Sloane Crosley

  Reading, Airports, Shoes

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• I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

  Dane Cook

  Littles, Knows, If I Could

  "Dane Cook Talks Planes, Working on a Disney Animated Movie, Learning Aviation Jargon, and Planes Sequel". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 6, 2013.

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• For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane ticket and stop worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it's crucial that everybody have a citizen's stake in the nation's welfare.

  Gail Collins

  Country, Worry, Priorities

  "Is This a Government Which I See Before Me?". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 5, 2013.

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• I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

  Barbara Bush

  Knows

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• I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.

  Amanda Peet

  Couple, Thinking, Keys

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• And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.

  Michael Phelps

  Stars, Block, Home

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• Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

  J. Maarten Troost

  Fairy, Invisible, Strings

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

  Charles Lindbergh

  Real, Lying, Civilization

  "Is Civilization Progress?". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Running, Witty

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• Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

  Jonathan Winters

  Kids, Thinking, Moon

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• I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That's no joke. I have a 'half pipe' in there, too - you know, like a big ramp, where I skateboard. It's awesome. It's the ultimate fantasy.

  Paul Walker

  Car, Half, Fantasy

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• I'm a crazy car guy. I've got an airplane hangar full of cars.

  Paul Walker

  Crazy, Car, Guy

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• I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

  Jesse Ventura

  Feet, Water, Done

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• The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Tombstone, Asteroids, Chance

  "We Can Survive Killer Asteroids — But It Won't Be Easy". www.wired.com. April 02, 2012.

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