Airplane Quotes - Page 17

• I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

  Lisa Ling

  Husband, Crazy, Reading

  "Lisa Ling ‘Our America’: Journalist Talks Pregnancy, Gets Candid For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Kari Friedlander, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant.

  Amanda Bynes

  Looks, Ants

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• Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will fly faster thansound? How is a molecule of insulin constructed? Religion, by contrast, tries to answer the question: "Why?" Why was man created? Why ought I to tell the truth? Why must there be sorrow or pain or death? Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

  Warren Weaver

  Pain, Science, Animal

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• I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do.

  Mandy Moore

  Writing

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane or dig a hole and find a canyon deep enough to repel into it so that we can capture images that were real.

  John Dykstra

  Real, Motorcycle, Cameras

  Interview with Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. August 31, 2011.

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• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  Carl Honore

  Journey, Lunch, Feet

  "Recession? The Perfect Time to Slow Down" by Carl Honoré, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2008.

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• I belong to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane. There is no space alotted for another pilot to tune the radios in the weather or make the calls to air traffic control centers or to help with the emergency procedures or to call off the airspeed down final approach. There is no one else to break the solitude of a long cross-country flight. There is no one else to make decisions.

  Richard Bach

  Country, Men, Space

  Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Nowadays a businessman can go from his office straight to the airport, get into his airplane and fly six hundred or seven hundred miles without taking off his hat. He probably will not even mention this flight, which a bare twenty-five years ago would have meant wearing leather jacket and helmet and goggles and risking his neck every minute of the way.

  Percy Knauth

  Airports, Years, Leather Jackets

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• Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing
  pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.

  Ann Richards

  Children, Talking, Drawing

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• Intelligence is the airport; will power is the airplane; man is the passenger and happiness is the destination!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Men, Airports

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• Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.

  Tracy Thompson

  Pain, Suicidal, Doors

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• You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Song, Coffee, Believe

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.39, Penguin

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• No one in his right mind would walk into the cockpit of an airplane and try to fly it, or into an operating theater and open a belly. And yet they think nothing of managing their retirement assets. I've done all three, and I'm here to tell you that managing money is, in its most critical elements even more demanding than the first two.

  William J. Bernstein

  Retirement, Thinking, Two

  "Behavioral Finance And Indexing". Interview with Murray Coleman, www.etf.com. June 12, 2008.

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• The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

  Wendell Willkie

  World, Dimensions, Aviation

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• In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with humans.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Flying, Outcomes, Determined

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• Former President Bush, to celebrate his 80th birthday, jumped out of an airplane. And if you've seen the polls, you know he's not the only Bush in freefall.

  David Letterman

  President, Celebrate, Polls

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• Imagine if somebody were to really sit down with Osama bin Ladin and say, 'Listen man, what is it that you're so angry at me about that you're willing to have people strap bombs to themselves, or get inside of airplanes and fly them into buildings?' That would be the miracle if we can get, sit down and talk to our enemies and find a way for them to hear us.

  Matthew Modine

  Men, People, Miracle

  "Actor: We Need To Ask Osama Bin Laden Why He's Mad At Us" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. March 30, 2010.

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• I don't see a great difference between someone sending a robot or a drone to bomb people and controlling it on a PlayStation from another country. It's thousands of miles away as opposed to someone in an airplane who is thousands of feet away releasing a bomb.

  Gary Oldman

  Country, Differences, Feet

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I would not have been able to accomplish a lot of what I did professionally had I not learned to fly myself and owned an airplane. For example, I was able to fly to an exhibition for the day and be back home in time for dinner. I never would have been able to do that flying commercially.

  Arnold Palmer

  Home, Flying, Example

  "Arizona 20 Years: Arnold Palmer". Interview with Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

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• If I'm on an airplane, a Kate Hudson movie is what I'm looking for. I'll sit there and I'll cry. I think it's the altitude or something like that.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Thinking, Cry, Kate

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

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• In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

  Bill Engvall

  Country, Brother, Road Trip

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• I didn't really because I know myself well enough to know that if I actually sit down and think about sort of I can spook myself out like anyone, you know? It's sort of like you've got to sort of jump out of the airplane when you're skydiving. If you spend 20 minutes sitting on the lip you probably won't do it.

  Justin Theroux

  Thinking, Sitting, Down And

  Source: collider.com

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• Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square ... I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.

  Eric Holder

  New York, Thinking, Squares

  "Attorney General's Blunt Warning on Terror Attacks" by Jack Cloherty, Pierre Thomas, abcnews.go.com. December 21, 2010.

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• You might be a redneck if the antenna on your truck is a danger to low flying airplanes.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Flying, Might

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• As soon as I jumped out of the airplane, I realized I had forgotten my parachute. Thank God we were still on the runway.

  Demetri Martin

  Thank God, Forgotten, Runway

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