Aeroplanes Quotes - Page 8

• It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

  John Hawkes

  Airplane, Males, Female

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• Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.

  Nelson Piquet

  Jobs, Reflection, Motor Racing

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• Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Organization, Progress

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• You may think that those aeroplanes in this city on 9/11 came out of a clear, blue sky. I believe they emerged out of a swamp of hatred created by us.

  George Galloway

  Believe, Blue, Sky

  "Galloway and Hitchens rouse New York crowd" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2005.

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• I will have to forego the car and even the aeroplane when I move from place to place, for the crowds pressing around them will be too huge; I will have to move across the sky; yes, that too will happen, believe Me.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Believe, Moving, Sky

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• You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science?

  John Buchan

  Sea, People, Mastery

  John Buchan (2016). “SIR EDWARD LEITHEN Complete Collection – 6 Titles in One Premium Edition (Mystery & Thriller Series): The Power-House, John Macnab, The Dancing Floor, The Gap in the Curtain, Sick Heart River & Sing a Song of Sixpence”, p.30, e-artnow

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• We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

  Roald Amundsen

  Gratitude, Grateful, Ice

  Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.15, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Sky, Work Out, Firsts

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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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• My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both.

  Anja Rubik

  Jobs, Yoga, High Heels

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• Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family.

  Liza Minnelli

  Planes

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• Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.

  Johnny Winter

  Writing, Hands, Names

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• Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

  Nevil Shute

  Design, Helping, Equations

  Nevil Shute (2010). “Stephen Morris”, p.36, Random House

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• These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.

  Henri Coanda

  Children, Airplane, Perfection

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• I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

  Hugh Shelton

  Airplane, Men, Perfectly Good

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "The Larry King Live Show", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Men, June

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.852, Delphi Classics

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• The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Sodium, Vapour, Rotation

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• I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

  Edward Everett

  Gratitude, Memories, Grateful

  Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”

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• This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

  Kenny Marchant

  Anniversary, Country, Years

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• If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

  Eddie Murphy

  Country, Opportunity, Watches

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

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• The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

  Harry Reasoner

  Airplane, Events, Different

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• Im shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I wont sit on a toilet seat on a plane. Im certainly not going to go on somebodys lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?

  Farrah Fawcett

  Dresses, Toilet Seat, Shy

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• We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games.

  Steve Yzerman

  Airplane, Games, Two

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• The airplane has had a big impact on my life.

  Jim Courier

  Airplane, Impact, Bigs

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• I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate

  Kathleen Turner

  Support Systems, Admiration, Underestimate

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