Airplane Quotes - Page 21

• A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength, though it is deficient only in the power of maintaining equilibrium. We may therefore say that such an instrument constructed by man is lacking in nothing except the life of the bird, and this life must needs be supplied from that of man.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Science, Men

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (translation by Edward MacCurdy)

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• The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg,
  But I will not hatch, I will not hatch.
  For I hear all the talk of pollution and war
  As the people all shout and the airplane roar,
  So I'm staying in here where it's safe and it's warm,
  And I WILL NOT HATCH!

  Shel Silverstein

  Fear, War, People

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• You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

  Reid Hoffman

  Inspirational, Business, Entrepreneur

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• Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.

  John Green

  Sunrise, Would Be, World

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.88, Penguin

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• If I could trade places with any of my sisters for a day, it would be Kim. I want to see what it's like...The only time she sleeps is on the airplane. It's just crazy. I feel bad for her, but I still want to know what it's like.

  Kendall Jenner

  Crazy, Sleep, Would Be

  "Kendall & Kylie Exclusive Interview". www.seventeen.com. July 31, 2012.

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• In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.

  Mark Burnett

  War, Two, Government

  "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships" by Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'

  Eileen Collins

  Military, War, Women

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• We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Balance, Orchestra

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• Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.

  S. J. Perelman

  Glasses, Santa Barbara, Cities

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• Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.

  Hal Borland

  Work, Humble, Journey

  Hal Borland (1946). “An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons”, New York

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• The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Technology, Men, Machines

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• I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

  Harrison Ford

  Talking, Ordinary, Common Experience

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.

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• What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced 'uh-LOO-mih-num', right? Anybody knows that! But do you know how the British spell it? 'Aluminium', pronounced 'Al-yoo-MIH-nee-um'. Ever hear anything so ridiculous? The French and Germans spell it 'aluminium', too, but they're foreigners who don't speak Earth-standard. You'd think the British, however, using our language, would be more careful

  Isaac Asimov

  Nice, Thinking, White

  Isaac Asimov (1975). “Of matters great and small”

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• The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My heart is beating as it should. My brain is firing off messages that are loud and clear. My wife is on the upright hospital bed, positioned the way people sleep on airplanes, her body stiff, head cocked to the side. Her hands on her lap.

  Kaui Hart Hemmings

  Sleep, Heart, Hands

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• There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyages, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Home

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• I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Elephants, Sight

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• You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things… Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

  Amy Poehler

  Real, Heart, Adventure

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• On an airplane, you are always told to put on your own oxygen mask first. The same way in life, you need to take care of your health first. If you are not happy and healthy, you cannot make anyone else happy and healthy.

  Rajashree Choudhury

  Oxygen, Way In Life, Healthy

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• I made an airplane out of stone. . . I always did like staying home.

  Shel Silverstein

  Home, Stones, Made

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• Researches reported that they developed a self-healing plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built and medicine is practiced. In a related story, Joan Rivers will never die.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Change, Healing

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• Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, East

  Statement on first use of atomic bomb in combat, 6 Aug. 1945

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• Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.

  Andrea Hirata

  Stars, Coffee, Simple

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• I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Hands, Cockpit

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• Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, America, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Breakfast Of Champions”, p.85, Random House

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• I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart.

  Niall Horan

  Girl, Heart, Boys

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