Airplane Quotes - Page 9

• I don't travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we meet a lot of people and we talk to them.

  Aaron Spelling

  Mean, Kids, People

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• I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Wife

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• Each system will depend on resources available, not from the bottom up or top down. In other words, if you put 500 passengers in an airplane that's designed to carry 100, it won't get off the ground. So all decisions are made based upon the physical equipment you're working with, or the environmental resources available. They're not made by Fresco or any other person. They're arrived at by studies and research.

  Jacque Fresco

  Top Down, Decision, Environmental

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• Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Believe, Men, Aviation

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• If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Funny, Life, Flower

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• It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Navy, Battle, Aviation

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• A mother should have some fantasy about her child's future. It will increase her interest in the child, for one thing. To turn the fantasy into a program to make the child fly an airplane across the country, for example, isn't the point. That's the fulfillment of the parent's own dreams. That's different. Having a fantasy - which the child will either seek to fulfill or rebel against furiously - at least gives a child some expectation to meet or reject.

  James Hillman

  Mother, Dream, Country

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I'm drunk and high at the same time/Drinking champagne on the airplane.

  2 Chainz

  Drinking, Drunk, Champagne

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• Actually, I tossed it nicely, landed nicely, like airplane. No warning, beautiful. That's the art of throwing racquets.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Beautiful, Art, Tennis

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• I take things a little bit more critically now, like, "What did I think I was saying in that song? What is this song about?" I thought the lyrics were incredibly descriptive, and now they sound really cryptic and weird. I'd like to also think that when I listen to songs from Something About Airplanes that I'm proud of my development as a writer. I don't think I was doing anything poorly at that time, but I can certainly see how my writing has changed.

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• ....a perfect paper airplane.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Perfect, Paper, Paper Airplanes

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.622, Simon and Schuster

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• I learned to ask myself questions like: Why is something made the way it is? Why does a motorcar look like it does? Is it right or wrong? What is an airplane? Why is it shaped like that? Then, later, I became a diver and studied subaquatic life and the streamlining of sharks and manta rays. Any fish is superior to the shapes we humans have invented - and unchanged for 250 million years, imagine!

  Luigi Colani

  Imagine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't live in Ireland, I live in London with my girlfriend; and it's because of the globalization of our planet, it's not necessary to live in Los Angeles to be a successful and any country is just an airplane ride away. If there's a director who wants to meet me or if there's something I have to do, I can just hop on an airplane - the world's small now.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Country, Girlfriend, Successful

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians debutantes spinsters fishermen retired sailors servants evacuees Shakespearean actors and mystery novelists WHO WON THE WAR.

  Connie Willis

  Girl, War, Nurse

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• I could have told him that nothing was safe and that no matter how careful you were and how hard you tried, there were still accidents, hidden traps, and snares. You could get killed on an airplane or crossing the street. Your marriage could fall apart when you weren't looking; your husband could lose his job; our baby could get sick or die.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Baby, Jobs, Husband

  Jennifer Weiner (2006). “Little Earthquakes”, p.509, Simon and Schuster

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• Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.

  George W. Bush

  Sadness, Fire Burning, Evil

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us." We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find...... a perfect paper airplane.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Children, Moving, Kissing

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• I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to the beguiling moon. I’ve never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. I’ve never driven a car. Or slept through the night. Never a private talk. Or a solo walk. I’ve never climbed a tree. Or faded into a crowd. So many things I’ve never done, but oh, how I’ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, I’d live a thousand lives as me, to be loved so exponentially.

  Lori Lansens

  Eye, Moon, Night

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.1, Vintage Canada

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• Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now

  Hayley Williams

  Stars, Night, Sky

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• If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Music, Song, Nice

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.

  Mary Roach

  Secret, Survival, Adults

  Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.125, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person out of work. The day was scrubbed clean by the desert air. The sky was blue. It was the blue of human eyes, waiting for something to happen. There was no reason for a sombrero to fall out of the sky. No airplane or helicopter was passing overhead and it was not a religious holiday.

  Richard Brautigan

  Religious, Cousin, Fall

  Richard Brautigan (1976). “Sombrero Fallout”, Simon & Schuster

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• I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

  John McPhee

  Class, Floating, Paper

  John McPhee (1982). “Basin and Range”, p.25, Macmillan

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• I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.

  Steve Toltz

  Eye, Moon, Yellow

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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• Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fall, Sky, Yesterday

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Glory Road”, Berkley

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