Airplane Quotes - Page 26

• I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.

  Burt Rutan

  Fun, War, Years

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• The only times I'm consistent about praying are when I'm on an airplane or when an ambulance goes by.

  China Chow

  Praying, Ambulance, Consistent

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• Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.

  Joshua Bell

  Football, Journey, Ipads

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• I love Cheetos, those hot, spicy kind. And chocolate. Every time I'm in the airport I'm buying Cheetos and eating them on the airplane.

  Alessandra Ambrosio

  Airports, Chocolate, Hot

  "This Week's Model: Alessandra Ambrosio". Interview with Tommye Fitzpatrick, www.wmagazine.com. January 31, 2011.

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• A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Novelists, Next

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• In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left. However, he said, there is one last mystery. There is a large country on the Roof of the World, where strange things happen. There are monks who have the ability to separate mind from body, shamans and oracles who make government decisions, and a God-King who lives in a skyscraper-like palace in the Forbidden City of Llhasa.

  Heinrich Harrer

  Country, Kings, War

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• Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe that human beings fear silence - that is, the absence of constantly imposed direction. It is further believed that if we can be relieved of our fears, we will gain enough self-confidence to buy, eat, vote, fly, or simply go on living.

  John Ralston Saul

  Believe, Self Confidence, Waiting Rooms

  John Ralston Saul (2002). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

  Richard Bach

  Home, Flying, Aviation

  Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a runway completely covered with French people, why are today's airplanes, which are equipped with radar and computers and individualized liquor bottles, unable to cope with fog?

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.234, Ballantine Books

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• There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of the Space Shuttle. . . . You don't put parachutes on airliners because the margin of safety is built into the machine. The 727 airplanes we fly are proven vehicles with levels of safety and redundancy built in. The shuttle is a hand-made piece of experimental gear.

  Frank Borman

  Moon, Space, Hands

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• I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

  Ameen Rihani

  Philosophy, East, Tradition

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• We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that there was no going back, and we built till our machines were ten million times more powerful than ourselves.
  We gave ourselves cars when we might have learned to run; we made airplanes when we might have grown wings; and then the inevitable. We made a machine our God.

  John Brunner

  Running, Powerful, Technology

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• There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.

  Burt Rutan

  Country, Brother, Years

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• And I don't want to jump out of an airplane - I've done that.

  John Slattery

  Done, Want

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

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• Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

  Paul Dickson

  Funny Life, Law, Want

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• Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type of work requires legions of people. In order to do things well, that can't be done by one person, you must find extraordinary people.

  Steve Jobs

  Order, People, Done

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• I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

  Carroll Shelby

  Thinking, East Texas, Car

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• When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Feelings, Lovely, Finding Yourself

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• These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a toy made of paper children use to play with. My opinion is we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles. I consider the aircraft of the future, that which will take off vertically, fly as usual and land vertically. This flying machine should have no parts in movement. The idea came from the huge power of the cyclons

  Henri Coanda

  Children, Should Have, Land

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• When I saw that show Lost I learned something. Other than one sort of big dude if you're in an airplane crash only models survive. So you know sit next to somebody pretty, but anyhow.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Next, Saws, Crash

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane.

  Karl Kraus

  Psychology, Bus, Accompany

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.

  David Letterman

  Brother, New York, Cities

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• If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all. It becomes merely a dream.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Dream, Travel, Feet

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Meditation in Action”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• Even before we . . . had reached 300 feet, I recognized that the sky would be my home. I tumbled out of the airplane with stars in my eyes.

  Jerrie Cobb

  Stars, Home, Eye

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