Aeroplanes Quotes - Page 9

• In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

  Bridget Riley

  Space, Painting, Planes

  Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

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• What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.

  Robert Mugabe

  Ships, Problem, Used

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• The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

  Claude Debussy

  Age, Diligence, Automobile

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• The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.

  Samantha Bond

  New York, Airports, Done

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• In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.

  Niki Lauda

  Airplane, Successful, Europe

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

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• She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

  Ted Olson

  Air, Hours, Said

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• If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

  Prince Philip

  Wings, Swim, Submarines

  "Wince Philip: Prince's Most Famous Comments and Clangers". www.theguardian.com. May 04, 2017.

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• The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

  Gene Tierney

  Change, Crash, Planes

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

  Lee Ryan

  Fall, Thinking, Dying

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• Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

  Sheena Easton

  Kids, Kind, Planes

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• People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane.

  Steve Largent

  Data, People, Planes

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• Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.

  Robert Goulet

  Years, Champion, Planes

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• I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

  Brenda Lee

  Air, Awful, Crash

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• I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

  Judy Collins

  Song, Too Much, Planes

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• On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

  Frederick Soddy

  Ignorance, Planes, Adversaries

  Frederick Soddy's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1922.

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• I think aerobatic pilots make the best pilots because you know, you're just so confident in an aeroplane. If you're gonna get into trouble, I'd rather be with someone that's a skilled aerobatic pilot.

  Janine Shepherd

  Thinking, Pilots, Trouble

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• The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from parcel delivery, taking photographs or conducting schools of flying.

  Harriet Quimby

  Women, School, Flying

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• How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.

  Gavin Pretor-Pinney

  Clouds

  Gavin Pretor-Pinney (2007). “The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds”, p.33, Penguin

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• The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.

  Walter Alexander Raleigh

  Heart, Flying, Soul

  Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Henry Albert Jones (1922). “The War in the Air: Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force ...”, The Clarendon Press

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• It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. . . Every time I have gone up in an aeroplane and looked down have realized I was free of the ground, I have had the consciousness of a new discovery. "I see:" I have thought, "This was the idea. And now I understand everything."

  Isak Dinesen

  Discovery, Ideas, Joy

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and walk down there. Travelling by car or aeroplane wouldn't be right at such a moment.

  Werner Herzog

  Girlfriend, Car, England

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• I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Giving, Chance

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not mean to suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.

  Walter Guido Vincenti

  Art, Mean, Engineering

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• The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five or seven passengers. High speed monoplanes will carry even less. . . . Over cities, the aerial sentry or policeman will be found. A thousand aeroplanes flying to the opera must be kept in line and each allowed to alight upon the roof of the auditorium, in its proper turn.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Cities, Flying, Lines

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• As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan be made, if within an hour there after a swifty gliding aeroplane might take its flight from St Petersburg and drop half a ton of dynamite above the enemy's war offices? Could any nation afford to war upon any other with such hazards in view?

  John Brisben Walker

  War, Russia, Japan

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