Planes Quotes - Page 8

• It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Friends, Kindness, Thinking

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• When I saw a phone on a plane for the first time, I panicked ... I thought people were going to call me.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Phones, People, Saws

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• Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Beautiful, Stars, Destiny

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• The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

  Laurence Sterne

  Mind, Receiving, May

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.333

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• Planes are my foxhole. I'm always on my knees in them.

  Patricia Hampl

  Flying, Foxholes, Knees

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Virgin Time”

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• Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how they talk. Whenever we had a debate in the office on how to handle crimes, they do not defend due process - they defend decisive action. They say it is better to kick someone out of a plane than let these people have a day in court. It is an authoritarian mindset in general.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Nsa, People

  "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• I like to be able to do things on my own. I'm a big boy. I can drive myself to an appearance or get on a plane. I like a little bit of independence...

  Peyton Manning

  Boys, Independence, Littles

  "Online Extra: Peyton Manning's IMG Dream Team". Interview with Diane Brady, www.bloomberg.com. July 12, 2004.

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• On weekends when everybody would go to the football games, I would be getting on a plane or driving my car across the state or across the country to go do a show somewhere and yeah so, I never thought of doing anything else.

  Jeff Dunham

  Country, Football, Weekend

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I don't know why the players make such a big fuss about sitting in the first class section of the plane. Does that mean they'll get there faster?

  Sparky Anderson

  Mean, Player, Class

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• when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.

  Virginia Graham

  Travel, Wife, Want

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• The urge to climb will never be explained. In olden days, perhaps it was a wish to reach the stars. Today, anyone so minded can buy a seat on a plane and feel himself master of the skies. Even so, he will not have rock under his feet, or air upon his face; nor will he know the silence that comes only on the hills.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Stars, Rocks, Air

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & Other Stories; Hungry Hill”, p.243, Hachette UK

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• On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly, 'Listen, darling, if you don't stop trampling me I'm going to make you sit on my lap while I tell you my entire life story. Including a lot of details about drug rehab and my divorce.' He goes back to his seat.

  Rosanne Cash

  Running, Divorce, Years

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• When a vision begins to form everything changes, including the air around me. I seem no longer to be in the same atmosphere. I feel a peacefulness and a love that are indescribable. I stand alone, and nothing worldly can touch me. I feel that I am looking down from a higher plane and wondering why others cannot see what I am seeing.

  Jeane Dixon

  Air, Atmosphere, Vision

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• Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood, I don't think I'm pretty enough.

  Christine Lahti

  Thinking, Hollywood, Enough

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• I am often late for planes. The airlines know me now, they call at home and ask, 'How much later will you be today?

  Gina Lollobrigida

  Home, Today, Late

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• We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that occurs in countless planes. It's indigenous to enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Age, Enlightenment, Atlantis

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• The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events will come and go, but the planes of light and nirvana will always be there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Suffering

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• Outside of nirvana, the planes begin, the subtlest planes of light that vibrate fastest, all the way on down through the astral realms through the physical and so on.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Suffering

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• Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Perfect

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• No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Spiritual, Humanity, Thrones

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wings, Jet Planes, Wheels

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• I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.

  Maeve Binchy

  Book, Fall, People

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• When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.

  Michel Martelly

  School, Kids, Years

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• Everywhere we look, technology has changed our daily lives - from the way we pay our bills, to the way we buy plane tickets or keep in touch with friends and family.

  Peter Roskam

  Technology, Family And Friends, Way

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• Sam Snead will fly anywhere in my plane with me. Sam's not as worried about the danger as he is about saving money.

  Arnold Palmer

  Saving, Worried, Danger

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