Airplane Quotes - Page 15

• I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.

  George Cayley

  Civilization, Progress, Navigation

  Sir George Cayley (1933). “Aeronautical and miscellaneous note-book (ca. 1799-1826): of Sir George Cayley”

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• Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all; it is witnessing. It is just sitting silently deep within yourself, looking at whatsoever is happening inside and outside both. Outside there is traffic noise, inside there is also traffic noise - the traffic in the head. So many thoughts - trucks and buses of thoughts and trains and airplanes of thoughts, rushing in every direction. But you are simply sitting aloof, unconcerned, watching everything with no evaluation.

  Rajneesh

  Crazy, Thinking, Rushing

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• I'll never forget this one time on an airplane when I was told in front of everyone that I had to purchase a second seat because I didn't fit into one. The people nearby who heard it laughed while I cried. It was horrifying.

  Rosie Mercado

  People, Never Forget, Fit

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• None of the individual metal hunks of an airplane have the property of flight, but when they are attached together in the right way, the result takes to the air. A thin metal bar won't do you much good if you're trying to control a jaguar, but several of them in parallel have the property of containment. The concept of emergent properties means that something new can be introduced that is not inherent in any of the parts.

  David Eagleman

  Mean, Trying, Together

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• The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to traveling at 17,500 miles an hour in that eight and a half minutes. It is still mind-boggling to me. I recall making some statement on the air-to-ground radio for the benefit of my fellow astronauts, who had also been in the program a long time, that it was well worth the wait.

  Robert Crippen

  Eight, Sitting Still, Space

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• Totally uneventful. It was a very successful first flight. To be honest, it was a little bit boring.

  Fernando Alonso

  Successful, Littles, Firsts

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• The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because it was easy and anyone could have done it.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Done, Way, Succeed

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• I am with the angels and just completely happy.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Angel, Aviation

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• Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.

  Jacques Charles

  Calumny Is, Perfect, Flying

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• It was absolutely perfect. You can handle this large aircraft as you can handle a bicycle.

  Jacques Rosay

  Perfect, Aviation, Handle

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• Airplanes are like women - pick what you like and try to get it away from the guy who has it, then dress it out to the limit of your wallet and taste.

  Stephen Coonts

  Guy, Trying, Dresses

  Stephen Coonts (2010). “The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• I would never put a video in front of my kid. While I don't use videos as a babysitter, they have come in handy on the airplane.

  Sheryl Crow

  Kids, Video, Use

  "Sheryl Crow on Motherhood". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.

  Harry Reasoner

  Flying, Balance, Gliding

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• Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Mean, People, Advancement

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• The hard, inescapable reality is that anyone who flies may die in an airplane.

  Stephen Coonts

  Reality, Safety, May

  Stephen Coonts (2010). “The Intruders”, p.69, Open Road Media

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• ... four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in Africa and Europe were the bulldozer, the jeep, the 2--ton truck, and the C-47 airplane. Curiously, none of these is designed for combat.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Senior, Europe, Jeeps

  DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER “Crusade in Europe”

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• At first the kid kicking the back of my airplane seat was enraging. Then I imagined it was a broken massage chair and I kinda liked it.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Humor, Kids

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• Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Funny, Needs, Aviation

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• Maybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about an airplane that drives investors crazy.

  Alfred Kahn

  Sex, Crazy, Aviation

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• Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane.

  George S. Patton

  War, Military, Special

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• Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Flying, Different

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• Every time I get on an airplane I figure it's gonna get blown up. You live on the edge.

  Joan Rivers

  Figures, Edges

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Take what happened to me in Bali. I planned on going to Ubud, then met a man on an airplane who told me it was too touristy. He gave me an address on the other side of the island, which turned out to be a palace where I lived for four years.

  Rita Gelman

  Men, Islands, Years

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• I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.

  Arnold Palmer

  Luxury, Flying, Attention

  Source: barbaraterryauto.wordpress.com

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• When you're flying, an airplane doesn't care who you are; it doesn't care how much money you make or don't make. All it cares about is: How well do you fly? How well do you know the airplane? How well do you know the sky?

  Richard Bach

  Sky, Flying, Care

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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