Hindenburg Quotes

• He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Cousin, Men, Nephew

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• The way I see life, it's like we're all flying on the Hindenburg, why fight over the window seats?

  Richard Jeni

  Fighting, Flying, Way

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• A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 . . .

  R. W. Apple

  Media, Hints, Zeppelins

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• For the foreseeable future, we're going to need oil products because I don't like the idea of hydrogen cars. I'm not sure I want to be cruising around a mall parking lot filled with a thousand mini-Hindenburgs.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Ideas

  "When Did Nature Get So Whiney?". www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2003.

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• This show [Timeless] is absolutely epic. I simply can't believe the production value for the episodes. Each episode is creating a new world. I just can't think of another television show that trumps the Hindenburg to the 1970s week to week.

  Misha Collins

  Believe, Epic, Thinking

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

  Dick Cavett

  Size, Comedy, Multiple

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.68, Macmillan

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• I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Past, Years, Soldier

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• I named my camel Katrina. She was a natural disaster. She slobbered everywhere and seemed to think the purple streak in my hair was some kind of exotic fruit. She was obsessed with trying to eat my head. I named Walt's camel Hindenburg. He was almost as large as a zeppelin and definitely as full of gas.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Hair, Purple

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.190, Penguin UK

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• Our camels plodded along. Katrina tried to kiss, or possibly spit on Hindenburg, and Hindenburg farted in response. I found this a depressing commentary on boy-girl relationships.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Depressing, Kissing

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