Airplane Quotes - Page 24

• Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Common Sense, Abortion, Boards

  "The Case for an Anti-Abortion Violence Registry". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2009.

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• How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.

  Peter Gleick

  Ideas, Want, Pay

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• Never stop flying the airplane.

  Ron Weber

  Flying

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• I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.

  Marc Reisner

  Believe, Waste, Window

  Marc Reisner (1993). “Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition”, p.14, Penguin

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• Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Boys, Ifs

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• The idea of a terrorist attack that assaults innocent human beings in a building, or a mall or a restaurant is bad enough--yet the terrorist mind that looks at a passenger plane and sees the fuel and the intensity of the blast, and sees the rocket engines that will carry it into the heart of destruction like a cruise missile, but who does not see the humanity of one single soul on that airplane is the chilling truth of what we're up against.

  Alan Keyes

  Heart, Ideas, Soul

  Alan Keyes' Address to Black America's Political Action Committee, www.keyesarchives.com. September 25, 2001.

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• God's irony, that in order to fight and defeat the threat of terrorism, we shall have to be clear about the principle of justice that allows us to understand what is evil in terrorism. And that principle of justice is the claim of justice that is inherent in every innocent human life. But if that claim was there in the Twin Towers, if it was there on the airplanes that those terrorists attacked, you explain to me why it is not there in the womb!

  Alan Keyes

  Fighting, Order, Justice

  Alan Keyes' Speech at Thanksgiving Point, Lehi, Utah, www.keyesarchives.com. September 24, 2002.

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• That guy behind me on the airplane? He's been kicking my seat because he hates me. He's kicking my seat because he hates me and I'm gonna kill him. When we get off this plane, I'm gonna make eye contact. I'm gonna kill that guy. And all of that is just stuff in my head, but it's good to get rid of that stuff.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hate, Eye, Guy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's always tough for me to make a movie, and then sit on an airplane and watch somebody watch it on their phone.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Movie, Phones, Watches

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• Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Heart, Men

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• I talked to Beyonce and she wants to learn how to speak Arabic and she wants to jump out of an airplane. I don't want to do that. I just don't want to wash my hair every day.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Hair, Want, Speak

  Source: www.today.com

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• If I was on an airplane, the people in coach would know who I am. But no one in first class would know.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Who I Am, Class, People

  "Q&A With Jim Gaffigan: ‘Hot Pocket’ Comedian Reaches Out to Our Wounded Soldiers (VIDEO)". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed total of all acts, but from the extraordinary power of exceedingly rare incidents of depravity to inflict catastrophic damage, especially in our technological age when airplanes can become powerful bombs. (An even more evil man, armed only with a longbow, could not have wreaked such havoc at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.)

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Powerful, Men, Evil

  "I Have Landed". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, p. 390: "The Good People of Halifax", 2002.

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• An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

  Richard Bach

  Joy, Understanding, Aviation

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

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• The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.

  Ken Kesey

  Reality, Wind, Glue

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.160, Penguin

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• I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven't been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife - I didn't put up for that stuff just to come in second.

  Barack Obama

  Baby, Fighting, Games

  "Obama: ‘I Don’t Believe in Coming in Second’" by Jeff Zeleny, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. September 6, 2008.

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• I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.

  Bobby Fischer

  Couple, Japan, Bombs

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. July 6, 2001.

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• I've been racking my brain. I've been trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane...I told the doctor, I said, 'Look, I'm worried about the next election.' ... A misunderstanding.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Doctors, Brain

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• Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Beautiful, Air

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• Flying radio-controlled airplanes [is my guiltiest pleasure]. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. It's a fascinating hobby.

  Tyler Perry

  Sky, Giving, Focus

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.

  Nolan Bushnell

  People, Innovation, Telephones

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• My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.

  Anne Lamott

  Ideas, Flying, Trying

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.55, Anchor

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• For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura bitters on the ice cubes. Add several twisted lemon peels to the shaker, then a bottle-top of dry vermouth, a bottle-top of Scotch, and multiply the resultant liquid content by five with gin, preferably Bombay Sapphire. Add more gin if you think it is too bland... I have been told, but have no personal proof that it is true, that three of these taken in the course of an evening make it possible to fly from New York to Paris without an airplane.

  Isaac Stern

  New York, Taken, Thinking

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• I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Jumping, Light, Gathering

  "Get Back to That Place: Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins Talks Touring Again and Why He Adores Tove Lo". Interview with Kelli Bender, people.com. June 30, 2015.

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• I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.

  Jon Foreman

  Writing, Meditation, Mind

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