Airplane Quotes - Page 18

• In the railroads, some people read clearly printed departure signs and then proceed to ask several times what they say. On airplanes, they demand things they know they cannot have. In their cars, they load up, drive away and then suddenly realize they don't know where they're going.

  Lucinda Franks

  Car, People, Railroads

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• Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.

  Charlie Munger

  Engineering, Bridges, Safety

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• History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.

  Gilbert Highet

  Book, Reading, Home

  "Peoples, Places and Books". Book by Gilbert Highet, 1953.

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• We live in a world where it has become politically correct to avoid
  absolutes. Many want all religions to be given the same honor, and all gods
  regarded as equally true and equally fictitious. But take these same
  people, who want fuzzy, all-inclusive thinking in spiritual matters, and
  put them on an airplane. You will find they insist on a very dogmatic,
  intolerant pilot who will stay on the straight and narrow glidepath so
  their life will not come to a violent end short of the runway. They want no
  fuzzy thinking here!

  Jack T. Chick

  Spiritual, Thinking, People

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• You have to offer sort of an evolution visually and do things like you've never seen before, like a fight between two men in a toilet on an airplane which was very exciting.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  Fighting, Men, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• I wanted to move away from the disaster airplane movies that we have seen in the past and do something that was more mysterious, and delay until the end the resolution of the mystery, and then have to deal with the plane itself.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  Moving, Past, Delay

  Source: collider.com

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• The frequency of divorce is extremely high after airplane hijackings. They're like crisis situations where suddenly you see a side of your partner that makes you think, "I don't want to continue living with this person anymore."

  Ruben Ostlund

  Divorce, Thinking, Make You Think

  Source: collider.com

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• Moderate aspirations lead to a contended life. I don't have to buy the airplane and I can't drive the tank!!

  Mahesh Babu

  Tanks, Aspiration, Moderates

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• I don't sit down with a goal of writing. I read books or magazines. I watch TV. I go to the doctor. I get on airplanes. I live a normal life and sometimes I'll notice something or read things or experience things.

  Brian Regan

  Book, Writing, Doctors

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• The war of Armageddon has already started... God is using his many weapons. He is sending hurricanes so fast that [the blue-eyed devils] can't name them. He is drowning them in floods and causing their cars to crash and their airplanes cannot stay up in the sky. Their boats are sinking because Allah controls all things and he is using all methods to begin to wipe the devils off the planet, [and] the enemy is dying of diseases that have never been so deadly.

  Malcolm X

  War, Blue, Sky

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• People who haven't ridden in trains don't know what they're missing. It's not like an airplane. You get to see the countryside, the beautiful country we live in. Unfortunately, our railroads have dwindled in passenger traffic.

  Ken Kelly

  Beautiful, Country, People

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• Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Stars, Loneliness, Book

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• That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.

  Jeff Bridges

  Film, Landmarks

  "Jeff Bridges On ‘R.I.P.D.,’ What’s Missing In Hollywood & His Reaction To ‘Airplane!’" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.

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• Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.

  Paul Theroux

  Suits Of Armor, Lovers, Armor

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• I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on hijacked airplanes. Why isn't that a national security issue?

  Edwidge Danticat

  Issues, People, Cuba

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• I think participating in "Gishwhes" is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks.

  Misha Collins

  Thinking, Order, Shopping

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I like to move as much as possible and look at reflections, weird angles, subjects from airplanes and cranes. I feel sorry for the Jabba the Hut types who can't do this. Once an obese student told me that he wanted to be a war photographer. I said, "Really?" and then I shot him.

  Peter Menzel

  Sorry, War, Moving

  "Interview with Peter Menzel and Faith DAluisio". Interview with Philip Greenspun, www.photo.net. April, 2007.

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• The triad is our ability of the United States to conduct nuclear attacks using airplanes, using missiles launched from silos or from the ground, and also from our nuclear subs' ability to attack. And it's important - all three of them are critical. It gives us the ability at deterrence.

  Marco Rubio

  Giving, Important, United States

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you're on an airplane, they always say, "in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor." We need oxygen right now.

  Benjamin Carson

  Oxygen, Needs, Emergencies

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• How many people, how many of us want to get on an airplane where you know only, only 20% of the pilots use the checklist? Why would you do that? I think we should be outraged because the technology is there, it's totally available. We're just not using it yet.

  William Davis

  Technology, Thinking, People

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• Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of the 20th century. It was how the Third Reich controlled its citizens, spread lies, and disseminated fear.

  Anthony Doerr

  Lying, Technology, Atoms

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Build high-speed, electrified trains over the most-traveled corridors. It'sreally hard to power carbon-free airplanes, but electrified trains are much easier. We'll be a half century behind the Japanese, but better late than never.

  Denis Hayes

  Half, Speed, Easier

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'd like to jump out of an airplane, but I'm very scared of that. I will have to do it.

  Cedric Gervais

  Scared

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• Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Years, Law, Numbers

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• If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.

  Danica Patrick

  Men, Thinking, Race

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