Planes Quotes - Page 35

• In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there.

  Stuart Appleby

  College, Airports, America

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

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• For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Portraits, Different, Used

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• Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

  Alan Bradley

  Growing Up, Tired, Talking

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• I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Believe, Love Is, Choices

  Interview with Simon&Schuster, www.simonandschuster.com.au.

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• Fly me high through the starry skies or maybe to an astral plane, cross the highways of fantasy, help me to forget today's pain.

  Gary Wright

  Pain, Sky, Today

  Song: Dreamweaver

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• I was flying back from Lubbock and I saw Jesus on the plane, or maybe it was Elvis. You know, they kind of look the same.

  Don Henley

  Jesus, Flying, Looks

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• I'm on a higher plane with brain with a flame, feel the fire, desire the same.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Inspirational, Fire, Flames

  Song: Knowledge is King

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• Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Country, Eye, Science

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• He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all beings and worlds, a true Brahmin has knowledge of the hereafter and of the workings of nature on this plane of existence.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Oneness, Knowing, World

  Paramahansa Yogananda, Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1995). “The Bhagavad Gita: God talks with Arjuna : royal science of God realization”, Self Realization Fellowship Pub

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• The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.

  Anita Shreve

  Fall, Heart, Law

  Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown

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• There were days when I was literally running for hours in the forest and then I'd jump on a plane and then I'd be on the 'Nurse Jackie' set. I was going from Vancouver to New York every three days. For me, it was really invigorating.

  Peter Facinelli

  Running, New York, Nurse

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

  Chanel Iman

  Eye, Praying, Breathe

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• Right before I jumped out of a plane, I knew what Superman felt like.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Felt

  "How did 'Glee' Star Harry Shum Jr. Spend his Summer? Skydiving!" by Cory Midgarden, www.mtv.com. September 17, 2012.

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• It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.

  Steven Johnson

  Achievement, Flying, President

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• We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.

  Steven Johnson

  Media, Focus, Gadgets

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• People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.

  Gayle King

  Thinking, People, Want

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• Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Sleep, Night, Two

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• Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know.

  Kerry King

  Fun, Order, Leaving

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• I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

  Tibor Kalman

  Imperfection, Insanity, Flying

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• You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.

  Rachel McAdams

  Eye, Thinking, Flying

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• I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.

  Vijay Mallya

  Morning, Guy, Want

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• When I was heavier, I danced and I jumped out of planes. I've always rejected the idea that there's a certain look or size that makes it acceptable to live life.

  Kathy Najimy

  Live Life, Ideas, Looks

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• I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.

  Ted Olson

  Justice, Wife, Command

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• It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.

  Kevin Powers

  Home, Risk, Soldier

  "Kevin Powers on The Yellow Birds: 'I felt those things, and asked the same questions'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2012.

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• The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.

  Aristotle

  Two, Three, Ontology

  "On the Heavens". Treatise by Aristotle (Book 1), 350 BC.

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