Aviation Quotes - Page 12

• Never quit. Never give up. Fly it to the end.

  Chuck Aaron

  Giving Up, Never Quit, Quitting

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• The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Men, Quality, Littles

  Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.160, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Remember, you fly an airplane with you head, not your hands and feet.

  Bevo Howard

  Airplane, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Flying, Great Aviation, Relaxed

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• It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious. There you are, fat as can be. The whole world is yours and you're the answer to the Wright brothers' prayers. You say to yourself, nothing can go wrong ... all my trespasses are forgiven. Best you not believe it.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Brother, Prayer, Believe

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• Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Lying, Clouds, Sea

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. I), 1939.

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• If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

  Yip Harburg

  Rainbow, Flying, Littles

  Song: Over the Rainbow

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• You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Horse, Airplane, Lovely

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Men, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

  Lord Kelvin

  Silly, Creativity, Science

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• In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.

  Neil H. McElroy

  Travel, Men, Airports

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• Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere.

  Arthur Miller

  Funny, Information, Databases

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• We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them.

  Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton

  Airplane, Flying, Want

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• There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!

  Roscoe Turner

  Airplane, Flight, No Excuses

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• Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Space, Giving, Flying

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• Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.

  Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra

  Sky, Flying, Soul

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• It's the most exciting thing you have ever done with your pants on!

  Stephen Coonts

  Pants, Done, Flight

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• What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Strong, Lying, Men

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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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• Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Jobs, Play, Can Do

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.

  Len Morgan

  Airplane, Flying, Way

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• Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life.

  Stephen Coonts

  Romance, Flight, Attraction

  Stephen Coonts (2010). “The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• This industry attracts more capital than it deserves.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Airline, Industry, Deserve

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• Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Freedom, Thinking, Bird

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

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• My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Distance, Two, Feet

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