Airplane Quotes - Page 7

• When I was getting close to being accepted for pilot training, I was allowed to get in a jet airplane. I sat there looking at all those switches and dials and I got the distinct feeling that I was sitting in the nose of bomb. I realized my fantasies of flying and fighting were just that - fantasies.

  Morgan Freeman

  Fighting, Flying, Feelings

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd rather have a kid come up to me and tell me that he loves dinosaurs or he loves airplanes or he likes training dogs or I like Shakespeare. I mean, just something.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Mean, Kids

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted the album to be aerodynamic, like an airplane taking off from a runway - all of a sudden you're in the air.

  Jens Lekman

  Albums, Runway, Wanted

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When somebody is flying airplanes into buildings and killing innocent people in the name of God, it makes you question why do they have that interpretation and somebody else has another interpretation, and how many people of Muslim faith would agree with that, and what are the different aspects of different people's religions that is so divisive, rather than being unifying?

  Madeleine Albright

  Muslim Faith, Names, People

  Interview with Kim Lawton, www.pbs.org. May 19, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My father modestly referred to himself as the Great Santini when we were growing up. And he took it - I later learned he had seen a high-wire aerialist when he was a boy, and he was up doing acrobatics in his airplane, and when he came down one time - when was a young lieutenant - he said, I was better than the Great Santini today. And some of the other pilots heard it, and the nickname stuck.

  Terry Gross

  Growing Up, Father, Boys

  9 Copy quote

• I'd love to work with Francis Ford Coppola. I met Coppola on an airplane.

  Paul Reubens

  Mets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.

  James Lipton

  Thinking, Difficult, Landing

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case; jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.

  James Lipton

  Horse, Thinking, Jumping

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Details, Looks, Entering

  Source: bigthink.com

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

  Chuck Daly

  Jobs, Land, Flying

  20 Copy quote

• The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Sweat, Oil, Smell

  21 Copy quote

• The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.

  Bob Blumer

  Aviation, Transformation, Wonder

  4 Copy quote

• What if airplane pilots said, 'my first three years were a wreck'? We worry about the safety of people at the hands of these other professions. Why don't we worry about children being at the hands of an adult, even a well-meaning adult, who doesn't know what he or she is doing?

  Deborah

  Children, Hands, Years

  8 Copy quote

• I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.

  Steve Fossett

  Sports, Different, Records

  9 Copy quote

• It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as saying that the three great developments in twentith century engineering are the airplane, the computer, and the pop-top aluminum can. Chaos and fractals are not even twentieth century ideas: chaos was first observed by Poincare and fractals were familiar to Cantor a century ago, although neither man had the computer at his disposal to show the rest of the world the beauty he was seeing.

  Robert L. Devaney

  Men, Discovery, Engineering

  14 Copy quote

• Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Business, Buying

  Comment to reporters during the IBM PC launch, 1981.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I remember looking at the wheel of the airplane as we rolled down the runway, because I wanted to remember the exact moment that I first went flying... the other thing growing up is that I was always interested in science.

  David M. Brown

  Growing Up, Flying, Age

  8 Copy quote

• This is just a hunch, but I bet airplanes think helicopters are assholes.

  Dana Gould

  Thinking, Hunches, Helicopters

  12 Copy quote

• In an effort to look cool, I am going to stop shouting Hey, you! at airplanes.

  Dana Gould

  Effort, Looks, Hey

  4 Copy quote

• Cougar jokes are now as hackneyed as airplane food.

  Felipe Esparza

  Cougars, Jokes

  4 Copy quote

• Black people don't hijack planes, alright? Now I'll be the first to admit, we steal a lot of stuff, but we do not hijack planes. In fact, in the history of aviation, a black person has never even attempted to hijack a plane. Do you want to know why? Because you can't sell an airplane.

  Alonzo Bodden

  People, Black, Stuff

  7 Copy quote

• You can't bring tweezers on an airplane. If I'm on a plane and you try to hijack it with tweezers, I'll whip your ass, man. You think I'm going to be late because you've got tweezers and a bad attitude?

  Alonzo Bodden

  Attitude, Thinking, Men

  4 Copy quote

• I wish airplanes were more like elementary school with someone up front telling everyone to sit down and shut up.

  Alonzo Bodden

  School, Wish, Down And

  5 Copy quote

• I was teaching airplane mechanics when I realized it was more fun to make them laugh. I was laid off one more time and I never looked back, although it was nice to have a steady paycheck and benefits.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Fun, Nice, Teaching

  5 Copy quote

• What if I jumped out of an airplane with a couple of tanks of helium and one huge, un-inflated balloon? Then, while falling, I release the helium and fill the balloon. How long of a fall would I need in order for the balloon to slow me enough that I could land safely?

  Colin Rowe

  Couple, Fall, Order

  10 Copy quote