Airplane Quotes - Page 12

• One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.

  Shania Twain

  One Day, Why Not, Want

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

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• Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

  James Thurber

  Travel, Men, Flying

  James Thurber (1956). “Further fables for our time”

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• You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

  Paul Theroux

  Funny, Travel, Grateful

  Paul Theroux (2011). “To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux”, p.85, Ivy Books

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• Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

  Matt Taibbi

  Two, United States, Apollo

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• My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.

  Ben Stein

  Lying, Virginia, Sky

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• I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Records, Band, Los Angeles

  "Bruce Springsteen Interviewed by Ed Norton" by Sophia Savage and Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 16, 2010.

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• My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Grandmother, Impact, Talking

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• Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical problem that is going to get solved. Eventually you will be able to work on a plane as if you are connected and, then when you get reconnected to the Internet, your computer will just synchronize with the cloud.

  Eric Schmidt

  Clouds, Google, Able

  "Text of Wired's Interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt" by Fred Vogelstein, www.wired.com. April 09, 2007.

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• And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

  Marco Rubio

  Men, Slave Ships, World

  "War of Choice" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. January 9, 2012.

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• I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.

  Gordon Bethune

  Safety, Risk, Needs

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• I'm a very wide reader. I read serious books and I read airplane, forgettable books. I never have fewer than four or five books beside my bed at night. I particularly enjoy reading about people who have gone through a personal growth.

  Mary Robinson

  Book, Reading, Night

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them.

  Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton

  Flying, Want, Aviation

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• Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world.

  L. Welch Pogue

  Ocean, Home, Sea

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• Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Miracle, Flying, Aviation

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• Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.

  Jean Batten

  Travel, Ocean, Adventure

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• Tailor gang they rolling up those paper planes.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Rolling, Paper, Tailors

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• When you have airplanes with precision weapons, striking hospitals in Aleppo and slaughtering innocent men, women and children, you're committing a war crime. So we need more sanctions against Russia. We should not relax them.

  John McCain

  Children, War, Men

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• If Russia is there [in Syria] alone fighting them [ISIL], guess what? Russia becomes the target and Russia starts seeing - who knows - MANPADs will find their way in there, airplanes will fall out of the sky. They will become vilified. They'll become the new magnet, together with Assad, for the jihadis.

  John F. Kerry

  Fall, Fighting, Russia

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• Everyone was talking about having airplanes disappear. And I said, "Wait, wait, wait. That's what you like? I'd tell you a story about something like my girlfriend leaving me, and the magic was really hard. The airplane thing was comparatively easy, and people liked that thing?" I realized at that moment, the power of the simple idea.

  David Copperfield

  Girlfriend, Simple, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age find its own technique.

  Jackson Pollock

  Past, Age, Technique

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• We all had a lot of fun making the film ["Airplane" ], but there weren't a lot of outtakes or cracking up because we all were focused on doing our jobs in a professional manner.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Jobs, Fun, Film

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• What happens if a drone falls right next to her?

  Kanye West

  Fall, Drones, Next

  "I Fear Electrocution By Drone". www.tmz.com. August 6, 2014.

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• There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.

  Elon Musk

  Real, Opportunity, Aviation

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• When you advance a frontier and you do tomorrow what's never been done today, you have to innovate to make that happen. You become an innovation culture. When I grew up, every time I turned around it was, "Oh, here's the longest bridge or the deepest tunnel or the fastest airplane." And I originally thought that was just kind of like a pissing contest with men with too much testosterone. And then I realized that to make the tallest building you have to innovate. To make the fastest train you have to design the train in a way that it's never been designed before.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Men, Bridges, Tunnels

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• We have been negotiating a lot of different transactions to save money on contracts that were terrible, including airplane contracts that were out of control and late and terrible. Just absolutely catastrophic in terms of what was happening, and we've done some really good work. We're very proud of that.

  Donald Trump

  Different, Done, Proud

  Source: www.esquire.com

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