Airplane Quotes - Page 2

• There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Aphorism, Aeroplanes

  1937 The Gift, ch.1.

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• But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.

  Birch Bayh

  Running, Jobs, School

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• Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Teaching, Cutting

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

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• I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product.

  Niki Lauda

  Want, Passengers, Products

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

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• These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.

  Henri Coanda

  Children, Perfection, Paper

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• Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Sports, Witty

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• My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

  Sally Ride

  Flight, Physics, Missions

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• Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

  Casey Stengel

  Funny, Sports, Humor

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• Lets take flight simulation as an example. If youre trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You dont have to get in an airplane until late in the process.

  Roy Romer

  Trying, Example, Pilots

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• The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

  Johnny Depp

  Party, Actors, Serious

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• In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.

  Niki Lauda

  Successful, Europe, Cost

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

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• I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get "Okaaaaaay, honey." I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.

  Kristen Bell

  Car, Trying, Adults

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

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• No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

  Richard Perle

  Should Have, Soldier, Tasks

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.195, Random House

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• I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

  Jack Vance

  Automobile

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• All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

  Mark Kennedy

  Technology, Men, Inspire

  "Beer, Boxers, Batteries, And Bodily Noises". Book by Stuart Kantor, p. 39, 2004.

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• I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

  Chuck Yeager

  Flying, Dying, Machines

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

  Alan Shepard

  Attitude, Pilots, Way

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• Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

  Charles Lindbergh

  Science, Technology, Bird

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

  Ted Danson

  Sky, Flying, Sooner Or Later

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• As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

  John Boyd Orr

  Government, Political, Environment

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• I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Passing, Heard, Overhead

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.238, Canongate Books

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• Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move away from me. ... And now when I tell people what I do, they move toward me.

  Martin Seligman

  Motivation, Moving, Inspiration

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• I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.

  John Dykstra

  Photography, College, Rocks

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• Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

  Garth Brooks

  Moving On, Moved On, Way

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