Airplane Quotes - Page 22

• I can write anywhere. I made up the names of the characters on a sick bag while I was on an airplane. I told this to a group of kids and a boy said, "Ah, no, that's disgusting." And I said, "Well, I hadn't used the sick bag."

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Character, Kids

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• The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.

  David McCullough

  War, Distance, Technology

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough Library E-book Box Set: 1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, John Adams, The Johnstown Flood, Mornings on Horseback, Path Between the Seas, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Religious, Hero, Adventure

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.

  Len Morgan

  Flying, Way, Aviation

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• An airplane might disappoint any pilot but it'll never surprise a good one.

  Len Morgan

  Pilots, Might, Aviation

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• I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from airplanes the people are crying thank you, thank you, all down the air; and the cold carriages draw up for them on the rocks.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Fall, Thinking

  ANNIE DILLARD (1974). “PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK”

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• Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

  Edward Abbey

  Civilization, Flight, Keep Going

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it. It's not how close can you get to the ground, but how precise can you fly the airplane. If you feel so careless with you life that you want to be the world's lowest flying aviator you might do it for a while. But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close.

  Bob Hoover

  Inspirational, Life, Cutting

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• Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.

  Amanda Bennett

  Food, Sea, Sky

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• You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don't think there's really any oxygen. I think they're just to muffle the screams.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Thinking, Oxygen

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• I dont eat anything on an airplane.

  Masaharu Morimoto

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• There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25]

  Tom Brokaw

  Military, Heart, Confusing

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• I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont

  Alberto Santos-Dumont

  Brother, Regret, War

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• Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes, radio sets, refrigerators, moving and talking pictures, and variety of less spectacular but no less useful innovations. These new products were certainly not an achievement of offices and bureaucrats.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Moving, Talking, Car

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable.

  Richard Bach

  Sky, Joy, Understanding

  Richard Bach (2012). “Nothing By Chance”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but the whole airplane cracked and crinkled from the blast... We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud... mushrooming, terrible and incredibly tall.

  Paul Tibbets

  War, Cities, Clouds

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• Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.

  Paul MacCready

  Aviation, Flight, Not Interested

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• I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go a little bit higher and a little bit faster.

  Gordon Cooper

  Desire, Normal, Zoom

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• The most exciting business ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin.

  Carmine Gallo

  Ideas, Napkins, Fit

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• I called my wife up on the cell phone and said baby you aint gonna believe this, i go, we just hit a deer with the airplane. and there was a silence on the other end of the line followed by.. OH MY GOD.! were you on the ground? I said nope, santa was makin one last run.

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Running, Baby

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Jan 15, 2013

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• This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.

  Harry Reasoner

  Ironic, Different, Extroverts

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• The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

  Reid Hoffman

  Journey, Jumping, Way

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• Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

  Wally Lamb

  Jobs, Jumping, Climbing

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• 'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes as an appropriate metaphor for feminist mothering. Mothers, empowered, are able to better care for and protect their children

  Andrea O'Reilly

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• I hate flying. I don't planes. I get really anxious.

  Lucy Hale

  Hate, Flying, Planes

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