Aviation Quotes - Page 2

• Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Adventure, Discovery, Flying

  ANNE MORROW lINDBERGH (1973). “HOUR OF GOLD HOUR OF LEAD”

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• On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

  Avi Arad

  Judging, Going Away, Stuff

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• I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

  Rainn Wilson

  Love Is, Thinking, Two

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• I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Wish, Done

  Ernest Hemingway (1981). “Selected Letters, 1917-1961”

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• A fool and his money are soon elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• A fool and his money are soon partying.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Party

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• A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Italian, Taxes Funny

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• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up on the mountain ridges where very few people have been I have thought back to what every flyer knows. That there is this special world in which we dwell that's not marked by boundaries, it's not a map. We're not hedged about with walls and desks. So often in an office the very worst thing that can happen is you could drop your pencil. Out there's a reminder that are a lot worse things, and a lot greater rewards.

  Richard Bach

  Wall, Order, Office

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• I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

  Chuck Yeager

  Airplane, Flying, Dying

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

  Amelia Earhart

  Airplane, Sky, Tree

  "How Aerial Photography Changes A Photographer’s Perspective" by Heather Hummel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2014.

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• The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

  Wendell Willkie

  Nature, Travel, Ocean

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• No one can realize how substantial the air is, until he feels its supporting power beneath him. It inspires confidence at once.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Air, Flying, Inspire

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• Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.

  Richard Bach

  Airplane, Men, Flying

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.209, Dell

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• Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket.

  Bevo Howard

  Pockets, Pilots, Hips

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• Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Airplane, Men, Sea

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee.

  William K. Kershner

  Earth, Thee, Great Aviation

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• I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, Airplane, Flying

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• If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Problem, Ifs

  "Baseball's Greatest Quotes". Book by Paul Dickson, 1991.

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• I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

  Michael P. Anderson

  Airplane, Pilots, Air Force

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• In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

  Amelia Earhart

  Pilots, Flight, Easier

  Amelia Earhart (1928). “20 hrs. 40 min”, Ayer Co Pub

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• In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

  Mary Garden

  Skills, Australia, Flying

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• Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

  Janet Napolitano

  Travel, Air, People

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• The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

  Mark Russell

  Inspirational, Hilarious, Funny Life

  "Frequent Flyer Humor and One-Upmanship". Book by George W. Stewart, Dog Ear Publishing, p. 12, 2011.

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• The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Faith, Airplane

  "The Little White Bird". Book by James M. Barrie, 1902.

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