Aeroplanes Quotes

• The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, Airplane, Science

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• I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it. It's not how close can you get to the ground, but how precise can you fly the airplane. If you feel so careless with you life that you want to be the world's lowest flying aviator you might do it for a while. But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close.

  Bob Hoover

  Inspirational, Life, Airplane

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• Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Travel, Wings

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• Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Antiques, Admiration, Natural

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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• Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Sports, Witty

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• Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

  Paul Getty

  Couple, Airplane, Rushing

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• For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

  Robert B. Parker

  Father, Admiration, Grew Up

  Robert B. Parker (2009). “Early Autumn”, p.4, Dell

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• A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Hope, Respect, Students

  William Lyon Phelps (1912). “Teaching in School and College”

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• New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

  Jackson Pollock

  Airplane, Mean, Artist

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

  Alan Rickman

  Two, England, Inches

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• We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

  Mitt Romney

  Volunteer, Giving, Admiration And Respect

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• Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birthday, Age, Dams

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.62, Routledge

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• Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane.' I said, 'If I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.'

  Anthony Edwards

  New York, Real, Yesterday

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

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• The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

  Johnny Depp

  Party, Airplane, Actors

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• If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

  Ted Danson

  Airplane, Sky, Flying

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• John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.

  Conan O'Brien

  Airplane, Careers, Doe

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• My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

  Sally Ride

  Airplane, Flight, Physics

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• If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA to build one.

  Ross Perot

  Airplane, Today, Size

  "Ross Perot Speaks Out".

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• I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

  Orlando Bloom

  Girl, Asking, Tickets

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• I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Humor, Wicked World, Politician

  The Observer, June 17, 1960.

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• In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

  Jay Chiat

  Moon, Vacation, Economy

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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• Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Fluency, Admiration

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• The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• When we're touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end.

  Phil Collins

  Cutting, America, Europe

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• Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Writing, Editing

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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