Airplane Quotes - Page 23

• To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

  Nevil Shute

  Climbing, Flying, Aviation

  Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”

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• I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

  Ron Reagan

  Airline Business, Flying, Air Force

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• I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Years, Flying, Tourism

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• There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Funny, Travel, Humorous

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• You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

  Walter Russell

  Car, Railroads, Looks

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• I have some figures which compare the cost of one kilo of airplane compared to one kilo of rice. One kilo of airplane costs thirty thousand US dollars and one kilo of rice is seven cents. And if you want to pay for your one kilo of high-tech products with a kilo of rice, I don’t think we have enough.

  B. J. Habibie

  Money, Thinking, Technology

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• Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return.

  Kathy Acker

  Past, Night, Mirrors

  Kathy Acker (1989). “Empire of the Senseless”, p.112, Grove Press

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• I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Flying, Pilots And Flying, Fear Of Flying

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• Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

  Qatar, Germany, Airbus

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• I don't think JetBlue has a better chance of being profitable than 100 other predecessors with new airplanes, new employees, low fares, all touchy-feely ... all of them are losers. Most of these guys are smoking ragweed.

  Gordon Bethune

  Thinking, Smoking, Guy

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• I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying.

  Francis Gary Powers

  Smart, Justice, Flying

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• He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Thinking, Self

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.300, Penguin

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• To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on the bridge of any ship while it is attacked by airplanes.

  Newton D. Baker

  Military, Bridges, Bags

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• I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.

  George W. Bush

  Silly, Airports, Thursday

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• Airplanes”. “It was cool to meet people that liked music as much as I did. As soon as we started writing together, it was pretty obvious

  Hayley Williams

  Writing, People, Together

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• I've become one of those annoying people who brings their own food on to planes.

  Jessie Ware

  People, Annoying, Planes

  "Jessie Ware: 'I'm such a bully about food'" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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• Several elements of the ADD mind favor creativity....As mentioned earlier, the term 'attention deficit' is a misnomer. It is a matter of attention inconsistency. While it is true that the ADD mind wanders when not engaged, it is also the case that the ADD mind fastens on to its subject fiercely when it is engaged. A child with ADD may sit for hours meticulously putting together a model airplane.

  Edward Hallowell

  Children, Creativity, Mind

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• I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.

  Bam Margera

  Stupid, Wine, Thinking

  "Johnny Knoxville and Bam Margera Interview JACKASS 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I love flying so much. I even airplane food. No one bothers you and your phone never goes off and you can't have emails go through. It's undisturbed.

  Margot Robbie

  Phones, Flying, Email

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• It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it.

  Samuel Hynes

  Writing, Skills, Flying

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• Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

  Claude Debussy

  Victory, Progress, Demand

  "Music in History: The Evolution of an Art". Book by Howard Decker McKinney and William Robert Anderson, 1957.

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• That's the words: "So I'm back to the velvet underground" - which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff - "back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was."

  Stevie Nicks

  Beautiful, Wall, Flower

  "Stevie Nicks On Her Favorite Songs: A Music Mix Exclusive". Interview with Leah Greenblatt, www.ew.com. March 31, 2009.

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• I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Tough questions teed up for Rice testimony" by Mimi Hall and Judy Keen, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 16, 2002.

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• Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It's not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.

  Condoleezza Rice

  New York, Thinking, Iraq

  CBS News, November 28, 2003.

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• Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Self, Tunes, Television

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