Aviator Quotes - Page 2

• The Marine Corps is proud of the fact that it is a force of combined arms, and it jealously guards the integrity of its air-ground team.

  Keith B. McCutcheon

  Integrity, Military, Team

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• The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical engineers were fettered to factories and drafting boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with the expanse of sky. There were times in an aeroplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down on earth like a God.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Adventure, Wind, Sky

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  Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills.

  Pancho Barnes

  Sex, Flying, Bills

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• I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it.

  Bob Hoover

  Opportunity, Thinking, Skills

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• Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.

  Jonathan Winters

  Kids, Airplane, Thinking

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• I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Years, Flying, Ordinary

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

  Francis Chichester

  Inspirational, Funny, Drinking

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• On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Stars, Home, Science

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.454, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

  Bessie Coleman

  Women, School, Flying

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• The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

  Amelia Earhart

  Appreciation, Women, Home

  "Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart". Book by George Palmer Putnam, 1939.

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• Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.

  Jean Batten

  Travel, Ocean, Airplane

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• Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

  George E. M. Kelly

  Leadership, Business, Differences

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• And so you try your best. Sometimes you go in with one thing, with one desire and come out with something else. In the case of 'The Aviator' it was to create a Hollywood spectacle, but by about the second or third week of shooting you just want to literally survive it. Because don't forget, I also go through the editing process too, and when the film is released I have to talk about it. So, I take all of that very seriously.

  Martin Scorsese

  Editing, Desire, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

  Harriet Quimby

  Women, Clothes, Flying

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• The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself.

  Billy Bishop

  Military, Fighting, Flying

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

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• Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.

  William T. Piper

  Dog, Baby, Nature

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• If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

  Beryl Markham

  Wisdom, Perseverance, Business

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.170, Open Road Media

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• Martin Scorcese is probably America's greatest living director, and while he is not a titan like John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or Federico Fellini, he is certainly consistently more interesting than Steven Spielberg, Brian de Palma, Francis Ford Coppola or Woody Allen. Even a failure like Gangs of New York or a curiosity like The Aviator is more interesting and ambitious than Munich, The Black Dahlia or Scoop.

  Joe Queenan

  New York, America, Interesting

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• Versace pythons. Louis Aviators. Balenciagas & they gotta be the gladiators.

  Nicki Minaj

  Python, Materialistic, Versace

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• Round, cat-eye frames, wayfarers, and aviators are my go-tos.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Cat, Eye, Rounds

  "Georgia May Jagger and Jerry Hall Dish on Classic Sunglasses and the Power of Red Lipstick". Interview with Carly Cardellino, www.cosmopolitan.com. May 8, 2013.

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• I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Clouds, Mountain, World

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1970). “The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh”, Harcourt

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• Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!

  Richard Bach

  Ignorance, Fishing, Skills

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But California in the sense of the West. The old West where Manifest Destiny was an almost palpable notion that was somehow tied to the land and the climate and one's own family-an unspoken belief that was passed down to children in stories and sayings.

  Michiko Kakutani

  Children, Destiny, Land

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